Arthur Morgan (Louth, Sinn Fein)
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Question 1332: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the percentage of GDP which is spent on housing policy. [24462/05]

Noel Ahern (Dublin North West, Fianna Fail)
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Total Exchequer spending on housing programmes amounted to just over €1 billion or 0.7% of GDP in 2004. The Exchequer provision was increased to €1.3 billion in 2005, and when non-voted expenditure is taken into account the gross spending on housing programmes is expected to reach some €2 billion or 1.3% of GDP.

Other areas of public investment such as servicing of land, provision of roads and transport also support broader investment in housing. Details of both public capital investment and broader capital investment in housing are set out in the Annual Housing Statistics Bulletin 2004, copies of which are available in the Oireachtas Library and on the Department's website, www.environ.ie.