Seán Fleming (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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Question 586: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number of voluntary housing organisations here that have purchased sites for housing and other related matters in each of the past six years where these sites were not developed and where these sites were subsequently sold on by the organisation concerned; the level of profit generated in each of these situations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15582/09]

John Gormley (Dublin South East, Green Party)
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Under my Department's Capital Funding Schemes for voluntary and co-operative housing, grants of up to 100% of the approved cost of projects are available for accommodation provided by approved housing bodies. All costs necessarily incurred in respect of the purchase of land or sites, the planning & design of schemes, the construction of accommodation units and associated legal/professional fees etc. are eligible for grant assistance.

Costs incurred by an approved housing body in the purchase of land or sites cannot be recouped except as part of an approved voluntary or co-operative housing project. The information sought in relation to the purchase or sale of land or undeveloped sites by housing bodies, and which is not the subject of a voluntary housing funding application, is not available in my Department.