Housing Provision

Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 15 November 2023

Wednesday, 15 November 2023

Questions (93)

Seán Sherlock

Question:

93. Deputy Sean Sherlock asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage further to Parliamentary Question No. 602 of 7 November 2023, to detail the 68 cases that have been referred to the Housing Agency by 21 local authorities; to identify what local authorities, in tabular form; the municipal district in each local authority concerned, in tabular form; the number of cost rental tenant-in-situ homes completed to date for each local authority; and the number in progress, in tabular form. [50063/23]

Written answers

Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Deputy Darragh O'Brien)

The Government has developed the ‘Cost Rental Tenant In-Situ’ scheme for tenants in private rental homes who are at risk of homelessness because a landlord intends to sell the property, but who are not in receipt of social housing supports. The scheme was established on a temporary administrative basis from 1 April 2023 and is managed by the Housing Agency, pending further policy development over the longer term with the intention of transitioning these tenants and homes to the standard Cost Rental model.

The Housing Agency are engaging with more than 130 landlords with a view to the purchase of those homes.

The Quarterly data on this scheme is currently being collated by the Housing Agency and being validated by my Department, with plans to publish on a quarterly basis with the Affordable Housing Delivery Figures.

Data on Cost Rental figures is available up to Quarter 2, 2023 and is published available at the following link: www.gov.ie/en/collection/6060e-overall-social-housing-provision/#affordable-housing-delivery.