Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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Question 112: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number of unoccupied houses available for sale or letting throughout the country in the private sector including incomplete developments on a county basis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4380/11]

Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail)
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The National Housing Development Survey database, published in October 2010, established an authoritative baseline analysis of unfinished housing developments to assist in fully understanding the scale and extent of the issues involved; the analysis is informing the work of the high-level Expert Group on Unfinished Housing Developments established in November 2010.

A total of 2,846 developments were inspected where construction had commenced but had not been completed, and these included over 180,000 housing units with planning permission. Of these some 120,000 have begun or progressed through construction, while work has yet to commence on 60,000. Of the 120,000 dwellings, some 77,000 are complete and occupied; 23,000 are complete and vacant; 10,000 are near complete; and a further 10,000 dwellings are at various early stages of construction activity.

The content of the baseline National Housing Development Survey database is available in tabular form on a county by county basis, together with the methodology employed in conducting the survey, on the Department's website - www.environ.ie .