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

6. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the extent to which the various local authorities have made overtures to his Department seeking funding in respect of local authority housing; the number of housing units acquired to date on foot of this initiative in County Kildare and other counties adjacent to Dublin; the extent to which new applications for housing, or indications of homelessness, are being received by the relevant local authorities; if he is satisfied that the measures taken to date are adequate to deal with the situation which arose as a result of a lack of provision for direct build local authority houses, and through the local authority loans fund, over many years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15683/15]

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