Jack Wall (Kildare South, Labour)
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Question 556: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number of housing starts by Kildare County Council in each of the past five years; the number of starts allocated in each of the past years to the Council by his Department; the number of affordable housing applications successfully concluded by the Council in each of the past five years; the number of houses allocated or agreed to by the Council and developers under Part V agreements; the number of financial agreements reached between developers and the council rather than the allocation of houses to the Council under Part V agreements; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16510/06]

Noel Ahern (Dublin North West, Fianna Fail)
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Information on the number of local authority house starts and units provided under the various affordable housing schemes, including units agreed to under Part V arrangements, by Kildare County Council for the years 2000 to 2004 is available in the Annual Housing Statistics Bulletins published by my Department, copies of which are available in the Oireachtas Library. This information, together with the 2005 data, are also available on the Department's website at www.environ.ie.

Since 2000 local authorities have operated their housing construction programmes on the basis of a four year multi-annual allocation of house starts for the period 2000-2003. This replaced the system of individual annual house start allocations in operation prior to 2000. The number of authorised starts allocated to Kildare County Council under the 2000-2003 multi-annual programme was 760 units. While the number of instances of Part V financial transactions is not available in my Department, up to the end of 2005 Kildare County Council received a total of €1,971,153 in lieu of land transfers.