Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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Question 551: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number of affordable houses acquired under Part 5 of the Planning and Development Act 2000 and allocated through the various local authorities throughout County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13857/07]

Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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Question 556: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number of affordable houses provided under Part 5 of the Planning and Development Act 2007 to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13866/07]

Noel Ahern (Dublin North West, Fianna Fail)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 551 and 556 together.

Information to end September 2006 on activity under Part V of the Planning and Development Acts 2000 to 2006 in each local authority area is published in my Department's Quarterly Housing Statistics Bulletins, copies of which are available in the Oireachtas Library, and is also available on my Department's website at www.environ.ie. Provisional data for 2006 indicate that 1,600 affordable housing units were completed under Part V nationally, 76 of which were in County Kildare.