Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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Question 319: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number of sheltered housing projects anticipated, planned or scheduled at locations throughout County Kildare; the degree to which this is likely to increase the availability of sheltered housing in line with current or anticipated requirements; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6007/10]

Michael Finneran (Roscommon-South Leitrim, Fianna Fail)
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It is a matter for individual housing authorities to plan the composition and management of their social housing investment programmes having regard to the specific social housing needs and priorities in their areas and to the Exchequer funding allocations available to them.

My Department will shortly meet with Kildare County Council as part of the Annual Housing Action Plan process at which time the Council's proposals, including those it may have for sheltered housing, will be considered in the context of its priorities for funding from within its 2010 social housing investment allocation.