Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 28 June 2017
298. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the number of the 10,000 social housing units currently in his Department's plans which have not yet commenced the part 8 process. [30253/17]
Amharc ar fhreagraCertain projects listed in the Social Housing Construction Status Report are not subject to the Part 8 process; these include projects being advanced by Approved Housing Bodies and projects by private developers that are being acquired on a turn-key basis by local authorities.
My Department does not have comprehensive information on the Part 8 process in all cases as this is a local authority matter and, in the interests of expediting projects, it is not uncommon for the Part 8 process and my Department's approval process to operate in parallel rather than in sequence. However, based on the information available from the local authorities on their social housing construction projects that have received funding approval-in-principle from my Department, some 300 are subject to the Part 8 process and approximately 180 have completed the process at this stage, with other being progressed by local authorities on an ongoing basis.
