The Capital Assistance Scheme (CAS) provides capital funding to Approved Housing Bodies for the construction and targeted acquisition of social homes for priority categories, including:
• persons with a disability (to include persons coming from a congregated setting),
• older people (age friendly housing),
• persons and families who are homeless, and
• care leavers (persons leaving state care at age 18 especially those who have complex needs and are in danger of falling into homelessness).
Applications to deliver new CAS supported social housing are made by AHBs to the relevant local authority and it is a matter for local authority to prioritise projects on the basis of how they propose to meet their respective areas' housing need.
Some €181 million available under CAS in 2026. Specific allocations are not provided to local authorities or AHBs, rather eligible delivery costs are generally recouped as projects advance and claims fall due for payment in line with the relevant scheme conditions.
My Department publishes a Social Housing Construction Status Report, which provides a breakdown of local authority and Approved Housing Body social housing new-build activity. The Report includes scheme-level details on the completion of social housing new builds, as well as information on each construction scheme as it progresses through the design and tender processes. The Report is available on my Department's website at: www.gov.ie/en/department-of-housing-local-government-and-heritage/collections/social-housing-construction-projects-status-reports/.
A breakdown of CAS supported homes delivered in Mayo per priority category since the scheme was introduced in the mid-1980s is not available. Data is generally available for CAS delivery per priority category from 2017, with delivery in Mayo to end-2025 set out in the table below.
|
Category
|
2017
|
2018
|
2019
|
2020
|
2021
|
2022
|
2023
|
2024
|
2025
|
Total
|
|
Older Persons
|
0
|
10
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
10
|
|
Care Leavers
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
6
|
0
|
3
|
0
|
9
|
|
Disability
(incl. De-congregation)
|
7
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
4
|
4
|
0
|
6
|
7
|
28
|
|
Homeless
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
8
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
8
|
|
Other
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
1
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
1
|
|
Total
|
7
|
10
|
0
|
0
|
5
|
18
|
0
|
9
|
7
|
56
|
Data on CAS social housing delivery, broken by local authority, can be accessed on my Department's website at www.gov.ie/en/department-of-housing-local-government-and-heritage/collections/overall-social-and-affordable-housing-provision.
There are currently a potential 48 additional social homes in the CAS delivery pipeline which are expected to deliver over the next three years. Data on social homes at planning stage can be sought directly from Mayo County Council.
I expect the pipeline to expand further and additional projects to come on stream over the lifetime of the new Housing Plan, Delivering Homes, Building Communities, which will support Mayo County Council to deliver on its social housing targets as per their forthcoming new Housing Delivery Actions Plans for 2027 to 2030, due to be published later this year.
