Update: Investment in the Public Housing Programme – Public Expenditure and Reform 6th November, 2014

 
  To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the extent to which he expects it may be feasible to encourage further investment in the public housing/procurement programme in order to address the serious housing crisis inherited from the previous administration with the emphasis on the number becoming homeless on a daily basis; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
 
REPLY.

Responsibility for developing housing policy,  proposals for its    funding and implementation    are primarily a matter for my colleague the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government.  As indicated in my  announcement of   a €2.2 billion  investment for  social housing  in the Budget, I understand    that    he will be shortly bringing forward a new  Social Housing Strategy that will contain more detailed proposals   in this regard.