Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 11 June 2024
383. Deputy Pat Buckley asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide, in tabular form, a detailed update on the completion of social and affordable housing units in the east Cork area, including unit size, cost, rent levels if not on set council rates, or unit-cost for the purchaser in the case of to-buy schemes for the years 2020 to 2023 and to date in 2024. [24785/24]
View answer384. Deputy Pat Buckley asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide an update on planned new social and affordable housing units for east Cork over the next five years, including expected unit size, cost, completion deadline and any additional details. [24786/24]
View answerI propose to take Questions Nos. 383 and 384 together.
Following the adoption of the Housing for All Plan, each local authority was required to prepare a Housing Delivery Action Plan setting out details of its planned social and affordable housing delivery programme over the period 2022-2026, in line with targets set and need identified.
The Plans include details of the locations and delivery streams for social housing schemes along with known plans for affordable delivery by the local authority (in line with the specific target allocated), the Land Development Agency and Approved Housing Bodies. Cork County Council’s Plan is available at this link: www.corkcoco.ie/en/resident/housing/housing-delivery-action-plan-2022-2026.
My Department publishes comprehensive programme-level statistics on a quarterly basis on social and affordable housing delivery activity by Local Authorities, Approved Housing Bodies and the Land Development Agency in each local authority area. This data is available to the end of 2023 and is published on the statistics page of my Department’s website at the following link: www.gov.ie/en/collection/6060e-overall-social-housing-provision/. Data for Quarter 1 2024 is currently being collated and will be published shortly.
My Department also publishes the Social Housing Construction Status Report (CSR). The CSR provides details of social housing developments and their location that have been completed, are under construction or are progressing through the various stages of the design and tender processes. This includes details of which local authority or AHB delivered or is delivering the development. The most recent publication was for Quarter 4 2023. The Quarter 1 2024 CSR will be published in tandem with the Quarter 1 statistics. All Construction Status Reports are available at the following link: www.gov.ie/en/collection/cb885-social-housing-construction-projects-status-reports/.
A version of the CSR file can also be downloaded for analysis by local authority, funding stream etc. at this link: data.gov.ie/dataset/social-housing-construction-status-report-q4-2023.
Question No. 384 answered with Question No. 383.
