Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 23 April 2024
383. Deputy Mattie McGrath asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he has any plans to develop modular homes for the homeless; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18026/24]
Amharc ar fhreagraMy Department's role in relation to homelessness involves the provision of a national framework of policy, legislation and funding to underpin the role of local authorities in addressing homelessness at local level. Statutory responsibility in relation to the provision of homeless services rests with individual local authorities.
Critical to addressing homelessness is an increased supply of housing, in particular social housing, and Housing for All includes a target to deliver 90,000 new build social homes in the period 2022-2030. Modern Methods of Construction (MMC) has been identified as a key measure to support housing delivery and actions to support the development of MMC in Ireland are set out in Housing for All.
MMC is central to the Government’s Accelerated Social Housing Delivery Programme. This programme is being led by my Department and will see the delivery by 13 local authorities of at least 1,500 social homes using Modern methods of Construction across approximately 36 sites. It is intended to expand the use of the Design and Build procurement approach to enable greater use of MMC in social and affordable housing delivery.
