577. Deputy Johnny Guirke asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the actions that are being taken, and the progress being made, on monitoring the housing targets in each local authority area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45420/26]

My Department publishes comprehensive programme-level statistics on a quarterly basis on social and affordable housing delivery activity by local authorities and Approved Housing Bodies (AHBs) in each local authority. These statistics provide delivery data at local authority level, including data on housing delivery vs targets. Data is available to the end of Q4 2025 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/ .

Under the new housing plan, Building Homes, Delivering Communities, each local authority will prepare a Housing Delivery Action Plan (HDAP) which sets out their planned delivery of social and affordable housing to 2030 in line with targets which will be set by my Department. My Department will be communicating with local authorities in this regard and will monitor progress on the targets by referring to these HDAPs.

It should be noted that existing HDAPs run to the end of 2026 and it is expected that new HDAPs, which will run to 2030, will be in place early in Q4 2026. Each local authority's current HDAP is published on its  website.