Ivor Callely (Dublin North Central, Fianna Fail)
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Question 521: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he has received details from Dublin City Council regarding the number of their local authority dwellings that are vacant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42482/06]

Noel Ahern (Dublin North West, Fianna Fail)
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The management and maintenance of their rented dwellings, including the control of vacant dwellings, is the responsibility of the housing authority concerned. The most recent figures available to my Department from Dublin City Council indicate that at 31 December 2005 there were 2,493 dwellings vacant. Of this figure 1,952 dwellings were de-tenanted for planned refurbishment purposes.

Ivor Callely (Dublin North Central, Fianna Fail)
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Question 522: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if Dublin local authorities have furnished him with the local authority housing waiting lists for the Dublin catchment area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42483/06]

Noel Ahern (Dublin North West, Fianna Fail)
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The statutory assessment of housing need is undertaken by local authorities on a triennial basis. The most recent assessment of need for social housing was undertaken by local authorities in March 2005. The results of that assessment indicated that there were 43,684 households on local authority waiting lists. More comprehensive data in relation to the assessment at an individual local authority level was published in the Annual Bulletin of Housing Statistics, a copy of which is available on my Department's website, www.environ.ie. The number of households on the waiting lists of the four main Dublin catchment area local authorities are given in the following table:

Ivor Callely (Dublin North Central, Fianna Fail)
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Question 523: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number of housing units built in Dublin city and the surrounding local authorities areas to date in 2006; the number of units that the local authorities obtained under Part V; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42484/06]

Noel Ahern (Dublin North West, Fianna Fail)
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Data on the number of house completions by each local authority for the first 10 months of 2006 have been published on the Department's website, www.environ.ie. Details in respect of the greater Dublin area are provided in the following table:

Data on the number of units acquired in the first 6 months 2006 by each local authority under Part V Planning and Development Acts 2000-2006 are published in the latest Quarterly Housing Statistics Bulletin, which is available in the Oireachtas library and on the Department's website. While my Department is currently compiling figures to the end of September 2006, data supplied by the local authorities indicate a provisional outturn of some 1,390 units acquired under Part V. This represents a 64% increase on the same period last year and exceeds the twelve months output in 2005. This is a very significant increase and I am confident that this upward trajectory in delivery will continue in the coming months and years.