Thomas Gould
Ceist:102. Deputy Thomas Gould asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of cost rental homes that persons have moved into by county in 2022. [62636/22]
Amharc ar fhreagraWednesday, 14 December 2022
Ceisteanna (102, 104)
Thomas Gould
Ceist:104. Deputy Thomas Gould asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of cost rental homes delivered by county to date in 2022. [62638/22]
Amharc ar fhreagraFreagraí scríofa
I propose to take Questions Nos. 102 and 104 together.
Under Housing for All, the Government will deliver 54,000 affordable homes between by 2030, to be facilitated by local authorities, Approved Housing Bodies (AHBs), the Land Development Agency (LDA) and through a strategic partnership between the State and retail banks.
In implementing the key objectives under Housing for All, each local authority has prepared and published a Housing Delivery Action Plan in respect of local authority supported or overseen delivery from 2022 to 2026. 18 local authorities with a strong and identified affordable housing need were asked to include their planned affordable housing delivery in their Action Plans. I have also set individual five-year Affordable Housing delivery targets for those local authorities.
2022 represents the commencement of a very ambitious programme of delivery of affordable housing. A pipeline of affordable purchase and cost rental housing delivery is being developed by local authorities, by Approved Housing Bodies using the Cost Rental Equity Loan and by the Land Development Agency. Furthermore, local authorities have been begun collating information on their delivery of affordable homes as well as the AHB sector in their area in the same manner as is currently done for social housing. It is intended that information on delivery across all delivery streams will be gathered by my Department and I expect that my Department will be in a position to begin reporting on affordable delivery for 2022 in the national quarterly delivery statistics in Q1 2023.
The LDA has an immediate focus on managing the State’s own lands to develop new homes, and regenerate under-utilised sites. In the longer-term, it will assemble strategic land-banks from a mix of public and private lands making these available for housing, which is expected to bring essential more long-term stability to the Irish housing market.
The LDA is also tasked with unlocking stalled private, planning-consented developments in the shorter-term through its market engagement initiative - Project Tosaigh. An expressions of interest process was launched at the end of 2021, and the LDA now has a pipeline of projects anticipated to deliver cost rental and affordable purchase homes. The LDA recently launched a renewed expressions of interest process under Project Tosaigh seeking proposals from the homebuilding sector for the forward purchase of unbuilt residential units. Work is underway in assessing proposals submitted. Details of current LDA developments on public land and Project Tosaigh can be found at www.lda.ie.
The LDA has also been asked to begin collating information on its delivery of affordable homes. It is intended that this information will be reported along with national quarterly delivery statistics for local authorities and AHBs.
Question No. 103 answered with Question No. 101.
Question No. 104 answered with Question No. 102.