Willie Penrose (Westmeath, Labour)
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Question 51: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the amount of moneys given by developers to local authorities in lieu of the provision of housing units under Part V of the Planning and Development Acts since 2001 to date in 2006; his plans for the use of these moneys; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36492/06]

Mary Upton (Dublin South Central, Labour)
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Question 77: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the moneys collected to date by each local authority under Part V of the Planning and Development Act 2000; the acreage of land received by each local authority under Part V of the Act; the amount of funding spent by each local authority in the provision of social and affordable housing; the amount of the land received which has been used by each local authority to build social and affordable housing; the number of houses built by each local authority under Part V to date; and the number of houses built in each local authority area since the enactment of the Planning and Development Act 2000. [36517/06]

Noel Ahern (Dublin North West, Fianna Fail)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 51 and 77 together.

Information to end June 2006 on activity, including under Part V, in each local authority area is on my Department's website at www.environ.ie. Information is also published in my Department's Housing Statistics Bulletins, copies of which are available in the Oireachtas Library. Total house completions on a county/city council basis up to end September 2006 are also available on my Department's website.

The legislation provides that any Part V monies accumulated by a planning authority should be lodged to a separate account, which should only be used by the authority as capital for its functions under Part V or as capital by a housing authority for its functions in relation to the provision of housing under the Housing Acts 1966 to 2002.