Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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Question 78: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the progress nationally to date in implementing Part V of the Planning and Development Act 2000; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13447/07]

Noel Ahern (Dublin North West, Fianna Fail)
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Information to end September 2006 on activity under Part V of the Planning and Development Acts 2000 to 2006 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 indicate that some 2,200 social and affordable homes were delivered under Part V last year, an increase of 60% on the corresponding level of delivery in 2005. A total of 3,845 homes were under construction under Part V at end-2006, while a further 3,392 homes were proposed under agreements entered into with developers. In addition, it is estimated that land/sites transferred to local authorities and voluntary housing bodies in 2006 were capable of yielding over 400 additional homes, while over €35 million was received by local authorities in-lieu of land.