Joe Higgins (Dublin West, Socialist Party)
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Question 520: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if the social housing budget will be increased in order to significantly increase the output of local authority housing units. [38080/05]

Noel Ahern (Dublin North West, Fianna Fail)
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The €1.3 billion investment programme for housing in 2006, which was announced in the Abridged Estimates Volume, AEV, represents a 5% increase over the 2005 allocation. While investment on this scale will allow for the delivery of a strong programme of social and affordable housing in 2006, the AEV provision does not take account of any further adjustments, particularly with regard to capital provision, which may be announced in budget 2006.