Written answers

Tuesday, 14 February 2006

Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government

Social and Affordable Housing

9:00 pm

Photo of Gerard MurphyGerard Murphy (Cork North West, Fine Gael)
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Question 221: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his plans to provide extra funding for the provision of special housing in other urban areas where building costs are high on foot of his decision to provide extra funding for the greater Dublin area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5239/06]

Photo of Noel AhernNoel Ahern (Dublin North West, Fianna Fail)
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I assume that the question refers to rates of funding applying under the voluntary housing schemes. I have recently announced increased funding limits for categories of accommodation under the schemes which are set out in the following table:

Capital Assistance Scheme
Ordinary Higher Certain offshore islands
â'¬â'¬â'¬
Category 1 (one or two person units) 110,000 150,000 140,000
Category 2 (three or more person units) 135,000 170,000 150,000
Category 3 (Traveller bays) 135,000 170,000 150,000
Capital Loan and Subsidy Scheme
Ordinary Higher Certain offshore islands
Category 2 (three or more person units) 135,000 170,000 150,000
Site costs
Ordinary Higher
â'¬40,000 â'¬50,000

The new rate for communal facilities is €7,500 per unit of accommodation provided.

The higher level of assistance, previously available in the five county borough areas — Dublin, Cork, Galway, Limerick and Waterford — and in the areas of Fingal, Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown and South Dublin, was also extended to include Kildare, Meath and Wicklow county council areas. There are no proposals to extend the higher level of assistance to other urban areas.

Photo of Martin FerrisMartin Ferris (Kerry North, Sinn Fein)
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Question 223: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number and percentage of overall house completions in 2005 which were social housing units. [5338/06]

Photo of Bernard DurkanBernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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Question 650: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number of new houses built by the various local authorities and offered to tenants in the year ending 31 December 2005; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5767/06]

Photo of Bernard DurkanBernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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Question 651: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number of houses provided through the various local authorities under the private or subsidised sites scheme in the year ending 31 December 2005; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5768/06]

Photo of Noel AhernNoel Ahern (Dublin North West, Fianna Fail)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 223, 650 and 651 together.

Details in respect of the number of social houses provided under the local authority housing programmes and by the voluntary and co-operative housing associations in 2005 are not yet available. My Department is compiling and collecting these statistics. However, details are available for the nine months from January to September 2005 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.

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