Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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Question 545: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the plans of his Department to make private sites available to those who qualify for such sites; the number of such sites allocated by each local authority in each of the past three years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36970/05]

Noel Ahern (Dublin North West, Fianna Fail)
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It is open to local authorities to provide housing sites at reasonable cost to assist persons in housing need to provide their own housing. Because of the land requirements for a significantly increased number of projects involving the provision of social and affordable housing directly by local authorities at present some authorities have a very limited capacity to provide housing sites at reasonable cost to individuals who wish to provide their own housing. My Department will continue to keep this measure under review.

Details of the number of low cost sites provided by local authorities in 2002, 2003 and 2004 are available in the various 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.