Written answer
Housing Provision
The Government outlined coordinated housing supports for disabled people, with local targets and dedicated accommodation to be included in new Housing Delivery Action Plans by Q4 2026.
107. Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the additional resources he will make available to assist people with chronic disabilities to find suitable housing. [69353/26]
Comment on this
My Department jointly published the National Housing Strategy for Disabled People 2022-2027 and Implementation Plan with the Department of Health and the Department of Children, Disability, and Equality. The Strategy and Implementation Plan are available on my Department’s website.
The Implementation Plan sets out the actions to achieve the vision of the joint Strategy for delivering housing and related supports for disabled people in the period 2022-2027. Both the Strategy and Implementation Plan operate within the framework of the Government's national housing plan, Delivering Homes, Building Communities, which aims to deliver 300,000 new homes by the end of 2030.
A record level of investment is being provided for the delivery of housing in 2026, with €5.2 billion in Exchequer capital funding complemented by investment through the Land Development Agency, LDA, and lending from the Housing Finance Agency, HFA, bringing the total capital funding for housing in 2026 to over €9 billion.
Each local authority is preparing a Housing Delivery Action Plan (HDAP) setting out their planned delivery of social and affordable housing to 2030 in line with their targets. Local authorities will reflect local need to ensure the right mix of homes to respond to need and priorities, including housing for disabled people for whom targets for the period 2027-2030 will be agreed with each local authority. This will include minimum targets for priority groups including disabled persons and specifically designed housing for disabled people, such as community dwellings particularly for intellectually disabled people. It is expected that new HDAPs will be in place by Q4 2026.
My Department, in conjunction with local authorities and AHBs, will continue to work and engage with the Department of Children, Disability and Equality, and the HSE within the framework of the National Housing Strategy for Disabled People 2022-2027. This is to ensure the coordinated provision of independent living accommodation to meet the needs of disabled people, in conjunction with the delivery of the disability services supports for independent living for disabled people which is the responsibility of the Department of Children, Disability and Equality, and the HSE.