Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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Question 222: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number of houses built and allocated by the various local authorities in the past 12 months; the number of one, two, three or more bedroom houses involved; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9737/06]

Noel Ahern (Dublin North West, Fianna Fail)
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Information on the number of houses constructed and acquired by local authorities to the end of September 2005 is available on my Department's website at www.environ.ie. Similar information for the full year 2005 will be published in due course in my Department's annual bulletin of housing statistics and on the Department's website.

A breakdown of dwellings constructed or acquired by local authorities by the number of bedrooms is not available in my Department. In recent years local authorities have provided a wider range of house types, including an increasing number of one and two bedroom dwellings, which are more suitable to single people and lone parents. My Department continues to advise local authorities of the need to provide a reasonable mix of dwellings suited to the different types of households already on waiting lists and to plan their future programmes taking account of the estimated size and type of households likely to be seeking local authority and voluntary housing in the future.