Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 30 June 2020
887. Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if a list of new build social houses will be published for each of the years 2016 to 2019, by local authority; and the target for each year in tabular form. [13296/20]
Amharc ar fhreagraMy Department publishes comprehensive statistics on a quarterly basis on all social housing delivery activity under Rebuilding Ireland. This is published on the statistics page of my Department’s website, at the following link:
https://www.housing.gov.ie/housing/social-housing/social-and-affordble/overall-social-housing-provision
This data provides a breakdown of social housing delivery across a range of mechanisms.
In addition to the statistical overview of activity in each local authority, a detailed Social Housing Construction Status Report is published each quarter which provides scheme level detail on new build activity under Rebuilding Ireland. The most recent publication covers the period up to the end of Q4 2019 and is available on the Rebuilding Ireland website at the following link:
https://rebuildingireland.ie/news/minister-murphy-publishes-social-housing-construction-status-report-for-q4-2019-2/
This is sorted by local authority, and gives a list of the individual projects that make up the new Build programme for that local authority (excluding Part V delivery).
A version of this file can be downloaded at the following link and used for various analysis in terms of stage of activity, location, quarter of completion, number of homes etc.
https://data.gov.ie/dataset/social-housing-construction-status-report-q4-2019
In terms of targets, all local authorities were issued with targets in April 2015 that covered the period out to 2017 under the Social Housing Strategy. This released €1.5 billion for nearly 23,000 new social housing units to be delivered via a combination of building, buying and leasing schemes. It did not further disaggregate targets into Build in isolation.
Following the publication of Rebuilding Ireland, there were increased national targets for social housing delivery, and a more nuanced focus on specific delivery categories. From 2018, local authorities were given 4 year overall social housing delivery targets, followed by annual targets, and they are working towards these targets to end 2021. In order to drive transparency and accountability at local level these targets were published on the Rebuilding Ireland (https://rebuildingireland.ie/news/minister-murphy-publishes-social-housing-delivery-targets-for-local-authorities-2018-2021/) and delivery against target is tracked on a quarterly basis.
Overall targets for each year under Rebuilding Ireland, and delivery against these targets is available at this link:
https://www.housing.gov.ie/sites/default/files/attachments/table_rebuilding_ireland_targets_and_progress_updated_for_2019_delivery.xlsx
