Terence Flanagan (Dublin North East, Fine Gael)
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Question 175: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will respond to a query (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15964/09]

Michael Finneran (Roscommon-South Leitrim, Fianna Fail)
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While meetings take place on a regular basis between my Department and local authorities on many aspects of social and affordable housing programmes, including individual housing projects, I assume the Question refers to the biannual Housing Action Plan (HAP) meetings held between my Department and the housing departments of local authorities in 2008.

The purpose of these meetings is to discuss the direction and content of authorities' proposed social and affordable housing programmes, including their regeneration programmes. Table 1 below sets out the schedule of 2008 Housing Action Plan meetings; County Councils include Town Councils and Borough Councils (that are Housing Authorities) within that County area.

Table 1 - Schedule of 2008 Housing Action Plan Meetings [HAP]

In addition, a number of meetings, separate from the Housing Action Plan process, were held with authorities last year regarding their regeneration programmes. Details of these meetings are set out in table 2 below.

Table 2 - Schedule of 2008 Meetings on Regeneration Programmes

Charlie O'Connor (Dublin South West, Fianna Fail)
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Question 176: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will confirm his proposals to fund the housing developments currently proposed by South Dublin County Council in Tallaght, Dublin 24; the details of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16001/09]

Michael Finneran (Roscommon-South Leitrim, Fianna Fail)
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During March, my Department held Housing Action Plan meetings with all housing authorities. The purpose of these meetings was to discuss the direction and content of authorities' proposed housing investment programmes and particularly to consider the prioritisation of projects and the reconfiguration of the Social Housing Investment Programme as a whole, so that it can be sustained and consolidated in the changing economic and budgetary circumstances.

On foot of information furnished in the course of this round of Action Plan meetings, and taking account of the final Estimates position for 2009 announced in the recent Budget, I am finalising this year's Social Housing Investment Programme allocations, which will issue shortly.

Individual projects or proposals for the Tallaght area will be considered in the context of South Dublin County Council's overall Social Housing Investment Programme.