Housing Provision

Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 21 May 2024

Tuesday, 21 May 2024

Questions (344, 345)

Peadar Tóibín

Question:

344. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the core targets for each local authority in terms of house building; and the number that have been built in each local authority to date. [22472/24]

Peadar Tóibín

Question:

345. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the reason core targets for house building are being enforced as caps. [22483/24]

Written answers

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

I propose to take Questions Nos. 344 and 345 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.

Under Housing for All, each local authority was required to prepare a Housing Delivery Action Plan. This Plan sets out details of both social and affordable housing delivery as appropriate over the period 2022-2026, in line with targets set under Housing for All. The Plans also include details of the locations and delivery streams for social housing schemes. The Housing Delivery Action Plans do not include additional affordable homes that will be delivered by the LDA, AHBs, First Home and via the higher Part V requirements introduced in the Affordable Housing Act 2021. The Plans have been published on local authorities’ own websites.

The following table sets out the social housing new build and long-term lease targets for each local authority.

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 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/

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 4 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 by local authority, funding stream etc. at this link: data.gov.ie/dataset/social-housing-construction-status-report-q4-2023

In relation to affordable housing, Housing for All sets out the range of actions necessary to increase the supply of housing out to 2030 comprising of 54,000 affordable homes to be delivered by local authorities, Approved Housing Bodies (AHBs), the Land Development Agency (LDA) and through the First Home Scheme, which is a strategic partnership between the State and retail banks.

Local authorities complete and submit data returns to my Department on delivery of affordable homes in their area in the same manner as is done for social housing. Statistical data on affordable housing delivery by tenure and by local authority area during 2022 and 2023 is published on my Department's website at the following link: www.gov.ie/en/collection/6060e-overall-social-housing-provision/#affordable-housing-delivery

	2022 Build and Long Term Lease	2022 Long Term Lease	2022 Build	2023 Build and Long Term Lease	2023 Long Term Lease	2023 Build	2024 Build and Long Term Lease	2024 Long Term Lease	2024 Build	2025 Build and Long Term Lease	2025 Long Term Lease	2025 Build	2026 Build
Carlow	85	5	80	90	0	90	92	0	92	99	0	99	101
Cavan	154	4	150	80	0	80	88	6	82	88	0	88	90
Clare	200	0	200	149	0	149	163	10	153	164	0	164	167
Cork City	644	129	515	625	87	538	623	75	548	592	0	592	601
Cork County	565	5	560	628	6	622	642	6	636	683	0	683	697
DLR	589	139	450	524	160	364	396	24	372	427	27	400	408
Donegal	220	0	220	155	0	155	179	20	159	171	0	171	174
Dublin City	1264	369	895	2417	486	1931	2330	356	1974	2222	100	2122	2165
Fingal	499	139	360	764	74	690	767	62	705	758	0	758	773
Galway City	308	3	305	226	7	219	227	3	224	241	0	241	246
Galway County	241	11	230	351	0	351	366	8	358	393	8	385	393
Kerry	346	31	315	269	8	261	275	8	267	287	0	287	293
Kildare	578	208	370	494	94	400	409	0	409	440	0	440	449
Kilkenny	170	0	170	149	0	149	153	0	153	164	0	164	167
Laois	204	4	200	79	0	79	80	0	80	87	0	87	88
Leitrim	30	0	30	26	0	26	26	0	26	28	0	28	29
Limerick	576	11	565	519	17	502	550	37	513	551	0	551	562
Longford	75	0	75	74	0	74	76	0	76	82	0	82	84
Louth	671	11	660	182	26	156	160	0	160	172	0	172	175
Mayo	112	22	90	151	0	151	194	40	154	166	0	166	169
Meath	413	73	340	323	80	243	249	0	249	267	0	267	273
Monaghan	125	0	125	56	0	56	57	0	57	61	0	61	62
Offaly	192	12	180	67	0	67	76	8	68	73	0	73	75
Roscommon	40	0	40	47	0	47	48	0	48	52	0	52	53
Sligo	45	0	45	111	0	111	135	21	114	122	0	122	125
South Dublin	440	40	400	853	150	703	778	60	718	812	40	772	788
Tipperary	232	2	230	155	0	155	167	9	158	170	0	170	174
Waterford	172	2	170	209	0	209	216	2	214	230	0	230	234
Westmeath	233	13	220	129	5	124	150	24	126	136	0	136	139
Wexford	421	1	420	172	0	172	196	20	176	189	0	189	193
Wicklow	456	66	390	226	0	226	232	1	231	273	25	248	253
Total	10,300	1,300	9,000	10,300	1,200	9,100	10,100	800	9,300	10,200	200	10,000	10,200

Question No. 345 answered with Question No. 344.