Arthur Morgan (Louth, Sinn Fein)
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Question 1358: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his Department's policy regarding the provision of houses, both SI and scheme houses, for single male applicants. [1442/05]

Noel Ahern (Dublin North West, Fianna Fail)
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Single men who are unable to provide housing for themselves from their own resources are entitled to apply for social housing which is provided by either a local authority or a voluntary housing body. While it is a matter for individual local authorities to decide on the allocation of houses to single persons and other categories on their waiting lists in accordance with their schemes of letting priorities, my Department continues to advise local authorities of the need to provide a reasonable mix of dwellings suited to the different kinds of households already on waiting lists and to plan their future programmes taking account of the estimated size and type of households likely to be seeking housing in the future.