COMHAIRLE CONTAE ÁTHA CLIATH THEAS
SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF RATHFARNHAM / TEMPLEOGUE / FIRHOUSE / BOHERNABREENA AREA COMMITTEE

Tuesday, February 08, 2022

MOTION NO. 10

MOTION: Councillor Carly Bailey

That this ACM requests reports, plans and ideas as to how the volume of social and affordable housing will be improved in both the Rathfarnham-Templeogue LEA and the Firhouse-Bohernabreena LEA over the next 3 years, 5 years and 10 years. Are there targets set? Are we reliant on Long Term Leasing and what will SDCC do once (if) that is stood down as a social housing policy response and the bulk of new development are Buy To Rent apartments and homes. We would appreciate it if the manager would make a statement on the matter, one that is extremely urgent in every sense of the word.

REPORT:

Housing for All the Governments policy for delivering housing to 2030 was announced in September 2021.  As part of this policy SDCC were required to prepare and submit to the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage a Housing Delivery Action Plan for the period 2022-2026 inclusive.  The draft action plan was submitted to the Department in December 2021.  To date the draft plan has not been offically agreed or approved. Until the plan is offically agreed it would be premature to share detailed contents of the plan with members.  Once the plan if offically approved it is proposed to provide an update to all members on the Housing Action Delivery Plan to include key deliverables, targets and actions.