Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

92. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if provision will be made to augment the direct local authority house building programme proposed in the recent budget, with particular reference to the urgent need to tackle the housing shortage in County Kildare and adjoining counties; if arrangements will be made for senior officials in his Department to engage with officials of the respective local authorities with a view to taking immediate steps to address what is now a serious housing crisis; if urgent provision will be made to put in place a major house building programme to yield sufficient housing units to meet the requirements of those families who are now on the local authority waiting lists, some for up to ten years; if such provision will address the problem that has arisen due to a lack of adequate provision in this regard since 2002; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4927/14]

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