Richard Bruton (Dublin North Central, Fine Gael)
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Question 208: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number of affordable housing units completed in 2006; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7407/07]

Noel Ahern (Dublin North West, Fianna Fail)
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Information to end September 2006 on the number of affordable homes completed under the various affordable housing schemes is published in my Department's Quarterly Housing Statistics Bulletins, copies of which are available in the Oireachtas Library and also on my Department's website at www.environ.ie.

Provisional annual data for 2006 indicate that some 3,200 affordable homes were completed last year under the 1999 Affordable Housing Scheme, the Shared Ownership Scheme, the Part V mechanism and the State/local authority lands element of the Affordable Housing Initiative. This represents a 20% increase on the corresponding level of delivery achieved in 2005.