Seán Crowe (Dublin South West, Sinn Fein)
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Question 24: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the recommendations from the NESC report Housing in Ireland: Performance and Policy his Department intends to accept and reject. [36584/05]

Noel Ahern (Dublin North West, Fianna Fail)
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The Government has been making substantial progress in addressing the concerns raised in the NESC report, with increased housing output levels and record investment in social and affordable housing measures. New measures have already been announced to accelerate the delivery of affordable housing and to maximise the availability of land for social and affordable housing programmes. The Government indicated at that stage that the more medium-term issues highlighted by NESC, particularly in the social and affordable housing area, would be addressed later in the year.

This process will be informed by the outcome of the statutory housing needs assessment being finalised at present and the work under way by the housing forum in reviewing the effectiveness of the existing social and affordable housing schemes in the context of the Sustaining Progress agreement. A new statement of housing policy will be issued soon.