Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 7 February 2024
240. Deputy Alan Dillon asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide a breakdown of the number of commencement orders for housing developments and the number of housing units delivered both publicly and privately in Mayo in 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4926/24]
View answer241. Deputy Alan Dillon asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage for a breakdown of the number of houses delivered both publicly and privately in Mayo in 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4927/24]
View answerI propose to take Questions Nos. 240 and 241 together.
Housing for All is the Government’s plan to increase the supply of housing to an average of 33,000 per year over the next decade. This includes the delivery of 90,000 social homes, 36,000 affordable purchase homes and 18,000 cost rental homes. Housing for All is supported by an investment package of over €4bn per annum, through an overall combination of €12bn in direct Exchequer funding, €3.5bn in funding through the Land Development Agency and €5bn funding through the Housing Finance Agency.
Data on the commencement of residential dwellings, at local authority level, are published monthly on my Department's website at the following link: www.gov.ie/en/publication/a5cb1-construction-activity-starts/. In 2023, commencement on 429 new homes was carried out in Mayo.
My Department publishes comprehensive programme-level statistics on a quarterly basis on social housing delivery activity by local authorities and Approved Housing Bodies (AHBs) in each local authority. This data is available to the end of Q3 2023 and is published on the statistics' page of my Department’s website at the following link: www.gov.ie/en/collection/6060e-overall-social-housing-provision.
Data for Q4 2023 is currently being collated and will be published shortly.
My Department also publishes the Social Housing Construction Status Report (CSR). The CSR provides details of social housing developments and their location that have been completed, are under construction or are progressing through the various stages of the design and tender processes. The most recent publication was for Quarter 3 2023. All Construction Status Reports are available at the following link: www.gov.ie/en/collection/cb885-social-housing-construction-projects-status-reports/.
A version of the CSR file can also be downloaded for analysis of completions, locations, approvals stage etc. at this link: data.gov.ie/dataset/social-housing-construction-status-report-q3-2023.
In relation to affordable housing, data for affordable housing delivery is published on a quarterly basis, similar to social housing delivery. This data is published up to Quarter 3 2023 and is available on my Department's website:
www.gov.ie/en/collection/6060e-overall-social-housing-provision/.
Local Authorities are in the process of systematically collating information on delivery of social, affordable purchase and cost rental homes in their administrative areas for Quarter 4 2023. This data is currently being verified. I expect that my Department will be in a position to report on delivery of affordable and social housing for 2023 by end Q1, in line with the usual publication timelines for previous quarters.
