Written Answers Nos. 240-242
240. Deputy Bernard J. Durkan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the total funding provided to Kildare County Council by way of direct grant to fund the building of new houses for suitably qualified applicants in each of the past five years to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3904/23]
Amharc ar fhreagraSocial housing construction is funded through a range of delivery streams such as local authority direct construction, Part V, turnkey developments, regeneration programmes and through direct construction and turnkey developments delivered by Approved Housing Bodies.
The funding provided by my Department to Kildare County Council in respect of social housing construction programmes in each of the years 2018 to 2021 is set out in the table below. The funding details for 2022 by local authority level are currently being finalised within my Department.
|
2018 €m |
2019 €m |
2020 €m |
2021 €m |
|
27.83 |
59.18 |
60.10 |
52.61 |
241. Deputy Bernard J. Durkan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the total number of persons housed by way of directly built houses by Kildare County Council in the past five years, excluding houses provided by approved housing bodies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3905/23]
Amharc ar fhreagraStatistics are published by my Department on a quarterly basis on social housing delivery by all local authorities across the range of programmes, including local authority build. This data, including that in respect of Kildare County Council, is available to the end of Quarter 3 of 2022 at the following link: www.gov.ie/en/collection/6060e-overall-social-housing-provision/. Data up to Q4 of 2022 will be published as soon as it is assembled.
In addition, a detailed Social Housing Construction Status Report is published quarterly and provides scheme level detail on new build social housing activity for the local authorities, including projects that are on site, in planning or design and completed projects and specifying the different delivery programmes. This includes the projects being advanced by or on behalf of Kildare County Council, and is available at the following link: www.gov.ie/en/publication/2b4cd-social-housing-construction-projects-status-report-q3-2022/ .
Kildare County Council has also recently developed their own 5-year Housing Delivery Action Plan which will contain further information on their future delivery plans and more specific information on their social housing projects will be available from the local authority itself.
The allocation to new tenants of housing, including newly developed social homes, is carried out by the local authorities and data on these allocations should be available directly from them.
Question No. 242 taken with No. 235.
