Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 26 January 2023
113. Deputy Cian O'Callaghan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide an update on the delivery of affordable purchase and cost rental housing; if the targets set out in 2022 for Housing for All were met; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3576/23]
Amharc ar fhreagra2022 represented the commencement of a very ambitious programme of delivery of affordable housing. This momentum will continue in 2023 with a pipeline of housing delivery in place and being developed by local authorities, by Approved Housing Bodies (AHBs) and by the LDA as well as homes being made available through the First Home Scheme.
Local authorities have begun systematically collating information on delivery of affordable homes in their area in the same manner as is currently done for social housing for submission to my Department. Informed by returns of this data which are pending from local authorities confirming 2022 delivery, I expect that my Department will be in a position to report the 2022 affordable housing delivery by the end of Q1 2023.
The Housing for All Action Plan Update was published on 2 November 2022. The section entitled “Planning the required number of homes” sets out the Government’s approach to reviewing current targets and projections, including the refreshing of the overall national housing targets and the subsets of social, affordable and market delivery.
Annual national affordable housing delivery targets were published in Housing for All (Figure 3, page 32) for the years 2022 to 2030 inclusive. Overall targets within affordable delivery streams will be revised per the approach set out above.
