Written answers

Tuesday, 14 June 2005

Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government

House Prices

9:00 pm

Photo of Paul KehoePaul Kehoe (Wexford, Fine Gael)
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Question 847: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the average price of a domestic dwelling house in the Wexford district of the Wexford constituency in the period 2000 to 2005; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19610/05]

Photo of Paul KehoePaul Kehoe (Wexford, Fine Gael)
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Question 848: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the average price of a domestic dwelling house in the Enniscorthy district of the Wexford constituency in the period 2000 to 2005; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19611/05]

Photo of Noel AhernNoel Ahern (Dublin North West, Fianna Fail)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 847 and 848 together.

My Department does not have data on average prices for houses in Enniscorthy or Wexford electoral areas of the Wexford constituency on the basis sought in the question. However, information on the average house prices in five specified areas, namely Cork, Dublin, Galway, Limerick, Waterford, together with an average price for all other locations, which would include areas in County Wexford, is published on a quarterly and annual basis in my Department's housing statistics bulletin, copies of which are available in the Oireachtas Library, and on the Department's website at www.environ.ie.

My Department is developing a new house price statistics system which will incorporate the production of a mix-adjusted house price index reflecting not only house price variations but also changes in the proportion of property types purchased and incorporating characteristics such as region, age of dwelling, type of buyer, including first-time buyer, house type and number of rooms. House price data will be available at county level once this system goes live, which is expected to be later this year.

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