Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 22 September 2020
361. Deputy Alan Farrell asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of social housing units delivered in an area (details supplied) over the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25455/20]
Amharc ar fhreagraMy Department publishes comprehensive statistics on a quarterly basis on 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
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. The most recent publication covers the period up to the end of Q4 2019 and is available at the following link:
https://rebuildingireland.ie/news/minister-murphy-publishes-social-housing-construction-status-report-for-q4-2019-2/
This is broken down by local authority, and gives a list of the individual projects that make up the new Build programme for that local authority (excluding LA 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
Below is a table with the delivery for Fingal since 2016.
|
Year |
LA |
Build |
Acquisition |
Lease |
HAP/RAS |
Total |
|
2016 |
Fingal |
195 |
164 |
48 |
63 |
470 |
|
2017 |
Fingal |
375 |
96 |
66 |
551 |
1,088 |
|
2018 |
Fingal |
420 |
214 |
72 |
1247 |
1,953 |
|
2019 |
Fingal |
514 |
169 |
85 |
1188 |
1,956 |
This shows that over the 4 year period, Fingal supported a total of just under 5,500 additional households under schemes and programmes supported by my Department. In addition to these supports, Fingal had a number of additional tenancies through their re-letting of existing vacant stock. Only a small portion of these (those funded through Voids) are captured in the Department's statistics.
In 2018, all local authorities were given an overall four year target for Build, Acquisition and Leasing, to cover the period 2018-2021. This target was proportionate to the social housing waiting list in their area. These targets were published at this link:
https://rebuildingireland.ie/news/minister-murphy-publishes-social-housing-delivery-targets-for-local-authorities-2018-2021/
Fingal received a target of 3,415 homes to be delivered (excluding HAP and RAS). By end 2019- half way- Fingal had delivered 71% of the 4 year target, or 2,418 homes under Build, Acquisition and Lease.
Data for Q1 and Q2 2020 is currently being finalised and will be published on the housing statistics page of my Department's website.
