Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 26 July 2017
1645. Deputy Mick Wallace asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the number of social and affordable housing commencements for 2017, by all 31 local authorities, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35721/17]
Amharc ar fhreagra1646. Deputy Mick Wallace asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the number of social and affordable housing completions for 2016 and 2017, respectively, by all 31 local authorities, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35722/17]
Amharc ar fhreagra1647. Deputy Mick Wallace asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the number of social and affordable housing planning permissions currently lodged for 2017 and 2018 by all 31 local authorities in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35723/17]
Amharc ar fhreagraI propose to take Questions Nos. 1645 to 1647, inclusive, together.
Statistics on the number of social housing properties constructed, purchased and leased by local authorities and AHBs, for letting to those on their social housing waiting lists, are published on my Department’s website at the following link: http://www.housing.gov.ie/housing/social-housing/social-and-affordble/overall-social-housing-provision. Some of these details are currently being finalised in respect of quarter four of 2016 and will be published shortly, with information on quarter one 2017 to follow thereafter.
Information is also publicly available on the new social housing construction projects that are recently completed, on site, or undergoing planning and design. This information is set out in the Status Report on Social Housing Construction Projects, which is published on a quarterly basis, with the most recent version, covering the period to end Quarter 1 of 2017, available at the following link: http://rebuildingireland.ie/news/social-housing-construction-projects-report-2017/. This list of projects is being added to on an ongoing basis and will be updated as part of the Rebuilding Ireland progress report for Quarter 2 of 2017.
My Department does not have comprehensive information on the Part 8 planning permission process for all local authority social housing developments, 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 others being progressed by local authorities on an ongoing basis.
