Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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Question 273: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number and location of affordable houses provided or to be provided in County Kildare on foot of development in hand or concluded; if in all such developments affordable housing is being provided in accordance with the regulations and Planning Acts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12722/06]

Noel Ahern (Dublin North West, Fianna Fail)
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The figures supplied by Kildare County Council to the Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government indicate that up to the end of 2005, a total of 778 units have been provided through the various affordable housing schemes. This comprises 683 under the shared ownership scheme, 52 under the 1999 affordable housing scheme and 43 under Part V.

Regarding future activity, 171 approvals in principle have issued under the shared ownership scheme with 19 units in progress. A further 53 units are proposed under the 1999 affordable housing scheme with 54 units in progress. Some 124 units are proposed under Part V of the Planning and Development Acts 2000 to 2004.

Information on all of the individual locations of affordable houses is not compiled by the Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government. However, information on the location of houses which received subsidy under the 1999 affordable housing scheme is set out in the following table.

I am not aware of any instances where affordable housing is not provided in accordance with the relevant legislation.