I propose to take Questions Nos. 256 and 258 together.
Since 2010, an annual national housing survey of unfinished housing developments has been conducted during the summer months to monitor progress. In that period, the number of unfinished housing developments has decreased by approximately three-quarters, from nearly 3,000
in 2010 to 668 in 2015.
The detailed findings of the annual surveys providing a breakdown of unfinished housing developments across local authority areas, annual progress reports and other useful publications and information in relation to Unfinished Housing Developments are available on the Housing Agency’s website at: http://www.housing.ie/Our-Services/Unfinished-Housing-Developments.aspx.
A summary of the 2013 Social Housing Assessment, which provides a breakdown of social housing need across local authority areas, is available on my Department’s website at: http://www.environ.ie/sites/default/files/migrated-files/en/Publications/DevelopmentandHousing/Housing/FileDownLoad,34857,en.pdf.
Arrangements to carry out the 2016 summary, which will provide updated figures of national housing need later this year, are well advanced. Further summaries will be carried out on an annual basis, thereafter.
The 2015 National Housing Development Survey and the Annual Progress Report illustrate that good progress is continuing to be made in resolving unfinished developments and that the reactivation of sites is now evident throughout the country.
The Government has committed, as set out in the Programme, to seek additional funding from 2017 to fund the completion of the remaining unfinished housing developments. This recognises that finishing out housing developments will alleviate housing supply pressures and deliver social housing units under the social housing obligations contained in Part V of the Planning and Development Acts 2000 to 2015.