Cathy Bennett
Ceist:272. Deputy Cathy Bennett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the proposals and associated targets to deliver age-friendly housing in counties Cavan and Monaghan. [5057/26]
Amharc ar fhreagraThursday, 22 January 2026
Ceisteanna (272, 423)
Peter 'Chap' Cleere
Ceist:423. Deputy Peter 'Chap' Cleere asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the proposals and associated targets to deliver age-friendly housing in counties Carlow and Kilkenny; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5303/26]
Amharc ar fhreagraFreagraí scríofa
I propose to take Questions Nos. 272 and 423 together.
Under Housing for All, each local authority prepared a Housing Delivery Action Plan, including Carlow, Kilkenny, Cavan and Monaghan setting out details of both social and affordable housing delivery as appropriate over the period 2022-2026, including details of proposed delivery of housing for older people, in line with targets set under Housing for All. Housing Delivery Action Plans are published on the websites of the respective local authorities.
My Department supports the delivery of age-friendly housing with funding available from a range of delivery programmes within my Department for both Local Authorities and Approved Housing Bodies to advance projects to provide for this category in line with the need identified within the Local Authorities Housing Delivery Action Plans. My Department’s Design Manual for Quality Housing, which is available on my Department’s website at the following link: www.gov.ie/en/publication/b3e02-design-manual-for-quality-housing/, provides guidance and designs for new public housing construction has a number of designs to support age-friendly housing. Under the Capital Assistance Scheme (CAS) up to 100% capital funding is provided to AHBs to provide new social homes for priority categories to include homeless, disability and age-friendly housing.
Under the Government's new Housing Plan, Delivering Homes, Building Communities, each local authority will prepare a new Housing Delivery Action Plan, reflecting local need identified including within the Housing Needs and Demand Assessment Framework. Within this broad framework, evidence-informed local authority Housing Delivery Action Plans provide a detailed picture of the quantum, type, size and location of social homes to be delivered by local authorities and AHBs. Learning from the first round of these plans will help inform and strengthen the next iteration of plans and set clear targets against which local authority and AHB delivery will be benchmarked to 2030. This will include minimum targets for quantity, type and size of social homes; for example, identifying the number of one-bed and larger homes, and housing for priority groups such as older persons and persons with a disability.