Arthur Morgan (Louth, Sinn Fein)
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Question 230: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that there are more than 43,684 households across the State that are in need of local authority housing in view of the fact that local authority house completion figures were down 3.3% for the first quarter of 2006. [31006/06]

Noel Ahern (Dublin North West, Fianna Fail)
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The most recent assessment of need for social housing, undertaken by local authorities in March 2005, indicated that there were 43,684 households on local authority waiting lists compared with 48,413 in March 2002 — a decrease of almost 10%. The number of local authority house completions/acquisitions for the first 6 months of 2006 stands at 1,786, while the number of units in progress at the end of June was over 8,900. Further information relating to the number of local authority housing units started and completed in the 6 month period January to June, 2006 will be published shortly in the Department's Quarterly Housing Statistics Bulletin and on the Department's website at www.environ.ie.