Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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Question 371: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number of local authority houses expected to be built from foundation to completion in 2008; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28255/08]

Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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Question 374: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the extent to which he provided funding to the public housing programme through the local authorities and excluding voluntary charitable or private housing organisations in 2007; his expectations for expenditure in this regard in 2008; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28258/08]

Michael Finneran (Roscommon-South Leitrim, Fianna Fail)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 371 and 374 together.

My Department's expenditure on the local authority construction and acquisition programme in 2007 was €941,272,980. This year my Department has allocated a record €1 billion to support construction and acquisitions projects across the country.

Because of the nature of local authority housing construction projects, where the project lifecycle may extend beyond a single year, information is not available on the number of houses expected to be built from foundation to completion in 2008.

However, data in relation to social housing starts and completions are published in my Department's Quarterly Housing Statistics Bulletins, copies of which are available in the Oireachtas library and on my Department's website, www.environ.ie.