John Curran (Dublin Mid West, Fianna Fail)
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Question 547: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the figures available for houses built by each local authority in 2005; if the local authorities will have a higher output in 2005 than they had in 2004. [28003/05]

John Curran (Dublin Mid West, Fianna Fail)
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Question 548: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number of houses for which funding was approved in 2004 for each local authority; and the actual number of houses built by each local authority. [28004/05]

Noel Ahern (Dublin North West, Fianna Fail)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 547 and 548 together.

The financial allocations to local authorities in 2004 for their housing construction and acquisition programmes took account of authorities' proposed housing starts and their contractual commitments on schemes under construction at the beginning of 2004. Detailed information on the number of local authority house starts and completions in 2004 and for the first six months of 2005 is available in the quarterly and annual housing statistics bulletins published by my Department, copies of which are available in the Oireachtas Library and on the Department's website at www.environ.ie. The total 2005 outputs will be available in the 2006 annual housing statistics bulletin and on the Department's website at www.environ.ie. At this stage it is anticipated that the number of houses completed or acquired by local authorities in 2005 will be in excess of the 2004 level of output.