Arthur Morgan (Louth, Sinn Fein)
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Question 267: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the amount of money spent by the State and local authorities on the provision of affordable housing in each of the past five years; and the number of units of affordable housing provided in each of those years. [11289/05]

Noel Ahern (Dublin North West, Fianna Fail)
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Total State spending on affordable housing, including non-Exchequer financing, for each of the past five years is set out in the following table.

Information on expenditure by local authorities on the provision of affordable housing is not available in my Department.

Information on the number of housing units provided under the various affordable housing schemes in each local authority area is published in my Department's housing statistics bulletins, copies of which are available in the Oireachtas Library and also on the Department's website at www.environ.ie.

Arthur Morgan (Louth, Sinn Fein)
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Question 268: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the amount of money spent by the State and local authorities on the provision of social housing in each of the past five years; and the number of units of social housing provided in each of those years. [11290/05]

Noel Ahern (Dublin North West, Fianna Fail)
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The total amount of capital expenditure on the local authority housing construction-acquisition programme for the years 2000 to 2004, which is funded by a combination of Exchequer capital grants and local authority internal capital receipts, and expenditure under the voluntary housing schemes is set out in the following table 1. The number of units completed in the years 2000 to 2004 under the local authority housing construction-acquisition programme and under the voluntary housing schemes is set out in the following table 2.