Arthur Morgan (Louth, Sinn Fein)
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Question 404: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number of persons on the council waiting list for housing in County Meath. [46248/08]

Michael Finneran (Roscommon-South Leitrim, Fianna Fail)
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The number of households on a local authority's waiting list continuously fluctuates as households on the list are allocated housing and new households apply for housing support. My Department does not hold information in relation to the numbers currently on waiting lists in County Meath. The 2008 statutory housing need assessment indicated that the net housing need in County Meath at 31 March 2008 was 1,450 households. The breakdown by authority in that county is:

Meath County Council — 1233 households;

Kells Town Council — 65 households;

Navan Town Council — 115 households;

Trim Town Council — 37 households.

Arthur Morgan (Louth, Sinn Fein)
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Question 405: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number of council houses built in County Meath in each of the past five years. [46249/08]

Michael Finneran (Roscommon-South Leitrim, Fianna Fail)
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Data in relation to social housing starts and completions are published in my Department's Quarterly and Annual Housing Statistics Bulletins, copies of which are available in the Oireachtas library and on my Department's website, www.environ.ie.