Jack Wall (Kildare South, Labour)
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Question 838: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if there is an application with his Department in regard to refurbishment of houses (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10079/06]

Noel Ahern (Dublin North West, Fianna Fail)
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There are no proposals with my Department from Kildare County Council for the refurbishment of houses in the scheme in question.

Jack Wall (Kildare South, Labour)
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Question 839: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number of affordable sites and affordable houses that each local authority has supplied to applicants for each of the past three years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10080/06]

Noel Ahern (Dublin North West, Fianna Fail)
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Information to end September 2005 on the number of housing units provided under the various affordable housing schemes in each local authority area is published 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.

The annual housing statistics bulletins provide, among other things, information on the number of sites acquired on foot of Part V agreements with developers and the number of low-cost housing sites that have been made available by local authorities.

While data are currently being compiled for 2005, provisional figures supplied by local authorities to my Department indicate that 1,833 affordable housing units have been acquired, 730 shared ownership transactions have been completed, 57 fully or partially developed sites have been acquired on foot of Part V agreements with developers while 124 low-cost sites were made available by local authorities.