At the second Housing Summit, held on January 22nd, I asked each Local Authority Chief Executive to furnish a report to my Department, confirming and setting out how their Local Authority will deliver on its social housing targets over the coming years. This process will have a particular focus on 2018 delivery profiles.
Templates were provided to Local Authorities for completion and these have now been returned to my Department with the exception of a small number of Local Authorities who are finalising their returns. The returns are being analysed by my Department and bilateral engagement with Local Authorities is ongoing to validate and confirm the detail supplied in respect of 2018 projected delivery.
Once all validations are complete, and the individual Local Authority returns are calibrated against national profiles for delivery in 2018, individual Local Authority targets will be finalised and published. Progress made by each Local Authority in terms of delivery against these targets will then be published on an ongoing basis, providing greater accountability and driving delivery.
It should be noted also that Construction Status Reports, published quarterly on the Rebuilding Ireland website, provide detail on completions in a given area during that quarter, detail on the schemes that are on site, and also detail on the pipeline of schemes progressing through the various approval stages. The latest quarterly report, setting out the position at end Q3 2017, is available at the following link: http://rebuildingireland.ie/news/quarter-3-social-housing-construction-status-report/ .
In addition, a wide range of information on social housing delivery is published on my Department's website on a quarterly and annual basis at the following link:
http://www.housing.gov.ie/housing/social-housing/social-and-affordble/overall-social-housing-provision.
