Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 23 July 2020
133. Deputy Bernard J. Durkan asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of local authority housing applicants whose needs were met by Kildare County Council in each of the past four years to date through direct build or Part 8; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17923/20]
Amharc ar fhreagraThe allocation of social housing and provision of housing supports is a matter for each individual local authority, and my Department has no role in the allocation process. My Department supports local authorities to deliver housing across a range of mechanisms and publishes comprehensive statistics on a quarterly basis on all social housing delivery activity. 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.
In addition to the statistical overview of activity in each local authority, a detailed Social Housing Construction Status Report (CSR) is published 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 was published on 14 May 2020. This report is available at the following link: https://rebuildingireland.ie/news/minister-murphy-publishes-social-housing-construction-status-report-for-q4-2019-2/.
Construction projects listed in the Social Housing Construction Status Report include projects which are both within and outside the Part 8 process. Non-Part 8 projects include those being advanced by Approved Housing Bodies and projects by private developers that are being secured on a turn-key basis by local authorities.
In most cases local authorities use the Part 8 process for local authority own development, which is not a planning application, and data on Part 8 cases is not collated in planning statistics as these applications are a matter for each relevant local authority.
The table below provides a breakdown of the number of homes delivered by Kildare County Council direct build for the period 2016 to 2019.
|
Kildare |
Homes |
|
2016 |
0 |
|
2017 |
28 |
|
2018 |
65 |
|
2019 |
128 |
This represents only a subset of the overall new build housing delivery for Kildare over the past 4 years.
