2958. Deputy Paul McAuliffe asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the latest engagements she or officials from her Department have had with the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage on the issue of housing and care supports for adults with an intellectual disability; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57992/26]

The National Housing Strategy for Disabled People 2022 to 2027 places responsibility for the provision of housing with the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage while the HSE is responsible for providing additional supports related to care needs.

Minister Foley and Minister Browne, alongside their officials have made significant progress, through the implementation structures established under the Strategy, in improving coordination with the HSE, Local Authorities and disability service providers at local, regional and national level.

A key element of this work is establishing the level of unmet need for specialist disability residential services in each county and local authority area. This information will inform the setting of targets in local authority Housing Development Action Plans for two groups of disabled people: those who can live more independently in the community, and those with greater support needs who require specialist disability residential services.

Under Delivering Homes, Building Communities, each local authority will prepare a new Housing Delivery Action Plan (HDAP) setting out their planned delivery of social and affordable housing out to 2030.

A recent circular issued by the Department of Housing to local authorities sets out the identified levels of unmet need and clarifies local authority responsibilities.

It is expected that the new HDAP’s, which will run to 2030, will be in place by Q3 of 2026. The Department of Housing will be ensuring through these housing plans that disabled people are getting the social housing allocations to support independent living in the community, including the provision of community dwellings for disabled people requiring a residential placement which have also to be supported by the HSE funding.

A key step for disabled people to access social housing is to ensure that all disabled people with a housing need have made an application for social housing through the relevant local authority. The HSE has been working with service providers to ensure that applications for social housing support are submitted to the local authorities.