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

68. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the extent to which it is proposed to reduce the numbers on local authority housing lists by way of a public capital programme, excluding voluntary agencies, on an annual basis over the next five years; if it is expected that new measures are likely to be taken in order to make a serious impact on the large numbers of local authority housing applicants currently dependent on private rental accommodation, with support to the extent of €450 million per annum from the Department of Social Protection; if further cognisance is taken of a further 20,000 families not on the local authority housing lists but dependent on unsupported private rental accommodation in a rapidly escalating rental market; if a full review will be undertaken of the policies pursued previously leading to this crisis situation in order to set in train an appropriate response; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25428/14]

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