Denis Naughten (Roscommon-South Leitrim, Fine Gael)
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Question 97: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the steps he is taking to ensure that affordable sites are made available to local authority housing applicants. [14215/08]

Batt O'Keeffe (Cork North West, Fianna Fail)
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Local authorities may provide sites at low cost to assist persons in need of housing to provide for their own housing. Such housing may be provided either individually, with the help, if necessary, of the other social housing measures including shared ownership, local authority house purchase loans, mortgage allowance, etc. or collectively, through the voluntary housing schemes, special group shared ownership housing projects or housing co-operatives. It is a matter for individual authorities to make available sites in accordance with the above arrangements having regard to housing need and available land. In the context of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill, which is currently being drafted, I am considering the need for any supporting legislative changes, having regard to the experience of operating the scheme.