Housing, Local Government and Heritage | Built houses from housing bodies or Part 5 provisions and number of residents

To ask the Minister for Housing; Local Government and Heritage the total number of persons housed by way of directly built houses by each local authority in the past five years, on a county basis excluding houses provided by approved housing bodies; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

To ask 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.

To ask the Minister for Housing; Local Government and Heritage the total number of houses directly provided by each local authority for rent for suitably qualified houses on a county basis excluding those provided by approved housing bodies or Part 5 provision, in each of the past five years to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

To ask the Minister for Housing; Local Government and Heritage the total number of houses directly provided by Kildare County Council for rent for suitably qualified houses in each of the past five years to date excluding those provided by approved housing bodies or Part 5 provision; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

To ask the Minister for Housing; Local Government and Heritage the total number of houses provided on a county basis by each local authority under Part 5 provision; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

To ask the Minister for Housing; Local Government and Heritage the total number of houses provided by Kildare County Council under Part 5 provision; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

To ask the Minister for Housing; Local Government and Heritage the total number of houses provided by approved housing bodies in County Kildare for suitably qualified applicants in each of the past five years to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

To ask the Minister for Housing; Local Government and Heritage the total number of houses provided by approved housing bodies on a county basis for suitably qualified applicants in each of the past five years to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

To ask the Minister for Housing; Local Government and Heritage the total funding provided to each local authority by way of direct grant to fund the building of new houses in the respective local authority areas for suitably qualified applicants in each of the past five years to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

To ask 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.

To ask the Minister for Housing; Local Government and Heritage the total funds, by way of direct grant or otherwise, paid to approved housing bodies in each of the past five years to date; the number of houses provided as a result in the same period; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

REPLY

My Department publishes comprehensive programme level statistics on a quarterly basis on social housing delivery activity by all local authorities, including Kildare. This data provides details on local authority, approved housing body and Part V delivery and is available to the end of 2021. This is published on the statistics page of my Department’s website, at the following link: https://www.gov.ie/en/collection/6060e-overall-social-housing-provision/  

Further details on Part V delivery by each local authority is also published on my Department’s website. This provides details on Part V delivery by each local authority and approved housing body delivery in each local authority area. This is available at: https://www.gov.ie/en/collection/fd048-affordable-housing-and-part-v-statistics/ 

Data for Q1 2022 is currently being collated by my Department and will be published shortly. 

My Department also publishes the Social Housing Construction Status Report (CSR). The CSR provides details of social housing developments that have been completed, are under construction or are progressing through the various stages of the design and pre-tender process. The most recent publication was for Q4 2021. The report is available at the following link: https://www.gov.ie/en/publication/af746-social-housing-construction-projects-status-report-q4-2021/  

A version of CSR file can be downloaded at the link below and used for analysis in terms of local authority, funding programme, project status, location, approved housing body  and completion date : https://data.gov.ie/dataset/social-housing-construction-status-report-q4-2021?package_type=dataset 

Social housing construction is funded through a range of different delivery streams such as local authority direct construction, Part V, turnkey developments and regeneration programmes and through direct construction and turnkey developments delivered by approved housing bodies. 

The funding provided by my Department to each local authority in respect of social housing build programmes in each of the past five years is set out in the table below. 

 

In relation to 2022, up to end May, some €243m was provided to local authorities to fund social housing build programmes. 

 

Local Authority	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
	€m	€m	€m	€m	€m
Carlow	5.25	6.03	14.71	10.11	15.93
Cavan	1.16	3.02	4.22	6.32	9.22
Clare	3.20	3.67	11.98	14.23	22.46
Cork City	13.92	42.31	55.43	80.52	70.20
Cork County	16.67	53.99	65.54	70.46	88.91
Donegal	4.28	10.36	9.86	17.28	19.89
Dun Laoghaire Rathdown	26.90	25.89	10.20	29.88	41.13
Dublin City	85.37	152.97	100.80	132.11	164.29
Fingal	31.47	61.06	58.59	54.01	30.22
Galway City	4.65	11.23	21.96	30.94	31.99
Galway County	1.88	12.33	15.95	35.47	37.89
Kerry	6.90	19.96	22.32	36.79	29.93
Kildare	11.33	27.83	59.18	60.10	52.61
Kilkenny	5.60	18.72	12.66	21.79	24.06
Laois	3.28	1.87	6.06	10.73	17.84
Leitrim	0.14	1.46	3.21	5.78	7.24
Limerick	46.00	50.21	40.20	48.54	37.86
Longford	2.97	9.40	15.56	8.42	21.33
Louth	4.67	12.57	28.01	65.86	46.92
Mayo	2.60	6.62	19.38	15.79	9.49
Meath	10.34	38.58	42.68	57.24	43.16
Monaghan	8.72	8.64	12.32	16.49	9.39
Offaly	0.40	3.42	12.82	7.15	13.98
Roscommon	1.98	1.62	4.06	5.36	5.22
Sligo	4.47	10.10	12.76	10.52	11.57
SDCC	19.31	67.53	52.51	32.74	18.69
Tipperary	2.17	4.27	13.57	22.90	33.13
Waterford	2.65	29.39	27.41	20.41	31.49
Westmeath	1.05	6.37	10.28	10.09	21.46
Wexford	4.11	15.63	21.79	19.88	38.29
Wicklow	0.73	24.19	42.91	69.97	65.98
Total	334.2	741.2	828.9	1,027.9	1,071.8

 

In respect of approved housing bodies (AHBs), there are a wide range of funding and delivery mechanisms available to local authorities to deliver social housing supports in partnership with AHBs.  The funding is provided by my Department directly to local authorities, who in turn, advance the funding to the AHBs, as appropriate. 

 

Funding provided to local authorities in respect of a range of AHB funded schemes for each of the past five years is set out in the table below.

 

 

2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
€m	€m	€m	€m	€m
229	348	430	515	624

 

It should be noted that in respect of homeless expenditure, my Department does not fund the operational costs associated with the provision of any homeless accommodation or services directly, but provides funding to housing authorities towards the overall costs incurred in the provision of homeless accommodation.  Housing authorities may also incur expenditure on homeless related services outside of the funding arrangements with my Department. Therefore, the amount of funding granted by housing authorities to individual homeless services is a matter for the relevant housing authority. Financial reports from each of the homeless regions, setting out expenditure on homeless services for 2016 – 2019 2021 are published on my Department’s website at the following link: https://www.gov.ie/en/collection/80ea8-homelessness-data/#local-authority-regional-financial-reports

 

My Department does not hold details on the number of persons that are housed in local authority housing. The oversight and practical management of housing waiting lists, including the allocation and transfer of tenancies, is solely a matter for the relevant local authority in accordance with the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2009, and associated regulations.