Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 24 October 2017
421. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number and cost of Part V units purchased with funding from his Department for each year from 2008 to 2016 and to date in 2017; the target number of this type of unit to be purchased with funding from his Department in 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021; and the funding allocated for Part V purchases for each year from 2018 to 2021, in tabular form. [44783/17]
View answerMy Department supports local authorities and approved housing bodies to acquire new social homes through the Part V mechanism through the provision of capital assistance under the Social Housing Capital Investment Programme, Capital Advance Leasing Facility and also through the long-term leasing of properties under the Social Housing Current Expenditure programme. As such, there is no one dedicated funding scheme for Part V units and the Department does not record information in the manner requested.
Some housing developments completed in 2016/2017 were subject to older Part V agreements made before 1 September 2015, when other options - such as a financial contribution, the provision of fully or partially serviced sites or the provision of land elsewhere in the functional area of the planning authority - were available. This means that properties currently being obtained via Part V may originate from either developments under old permissions and agreements or through agreements under the new legislative provision and, accordingly, costs differ and an average cost would not be indicative.
Details on the number of social housing properties constructed, purchased and leased by local authorities and approved housing bodies, for letting to those on their social housing waiting lists, are published on my Department’s website at the following link:
http://www.housing.gov.ie/housing/social-housing/social-and-affordble/overall-social-housing-provision.
Information in respect of most areas of social housing is available up to quarter two of 2017, while specific data relating to social housing delivery under the Part V arrangements is available up to end 2016.
The overall number of new social homes anticipated to become available through the Part V process in the period of the Rebuilding Ireland strategy is approximately 4,700. The houses delivered in this way will be supported under a range of different programmes, involving either local authorities or approved housing bodies and the method of delivery will also be subject to localised negotiations between local authorities and developers. The funding required for Part V delivery will be provided from within the €6 billion that is now available to support the 50,000 social homes delivery under Rebuilding Ireland. The number of Part V units expected to be delivered in each year is as follows: 590 in 2018, 1,100 in 2019, 1,210 in 2020 and 1,320 in 2021.
