Seán Crowe (Dublin South West, Sinn Fein)
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Question 102: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the average number of vacant dwellings in the State in each of the past ten years. [22476/06]

Noel Ahern (Dublin North West, Fianna Fail)
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My Department does not have a detailed breakdown of housing stock by type of purchaser or by nature of occupancy. Information collected as part of the Census of Population can provide some data on vacant dwellings. However, as there may be a number of reasons why a dwelling is vacant at any point in time, such as households' absence on the night of the Census or rented dwellings between lettings, it is not possible to provide an estimate of the average numbers of vacant dwellings over the past ten years.