Arthur Morgan (Louth, Sinn Fein)
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Question 1368: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number of social housing units in the State in June 2002; and the number of social housing units in the State at present. [24960/05]

Noel Ahern (Dublin North West, Fianna Fail)
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The data on the number of local authority houses let are collated at the end of each calendar year, with most recent figures available 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.

On this basis, at end December 2001 there were 102,789 local authority houses let and a further 12,500 — estimated — in the voluntary and co-operative housing sector, giving a total social housing stock of some 115,000. By the end of 2004, the total housing stock had grown to an estimated 127,000 units. The level of this stock continues to rise in line with Government's increased investment in social housing measures.