Aengus Ó Snodaigh (Dublin South Central, Sinn Fein)
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Question 477: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the capital housing grant application for senior citizen housing projects that Dublin City Council has made to his Department for each of the past four years; the value of each application; the location of the proposed schemes; the number of units to be built and refurbished; the result of such application; if still pending a decision, the reason for same; and when a decision will be made. [22246/11]

Willie Penrose (Longford-Westmeath, Labour)
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My Department provides funding for senior citizen housing projects through a number of capital funding mechanisms, including the Social Housing Investment Programme, Capital Assistance Scheme and the Improvement Works Programme, the allocations for which are provided to Dublin City Council on a annual basis. There is no specific allocation for senior citizen projects within the overall capital allocations programme.

A number of projects, completed, ongoing and proposed, would include senior citizen units as part of a larger overall scheme, and these units may not be readily identifiable to my Department, as the allocation of units is a matter for the local authority concerned.

Based on the local authority's annual allocations it is a matter for housing authorities to finalise their plans for the composition, management and delivery of their programmes, taking into account existing commitments, identifying priority projects and proposals, and providing a time line for delivery and a sustainable funding plan for each project and their programme as a whole.

Social housing allocations by local authority for the period 2007 – 2010 are available on my Department's website at www.environ.ie under Publications/Statistics and Regular Publications/Housing Statistics. In addition to €50 million allocated to the Ballymun Regeneration Scheme, my Department has allocated a further €50 million to Dublin City Council for the provision of social and voluntary units and improvement works in 2011.

Aengus Ó Snodaigh (Dublin South Central, Sinn Fein)
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Question 478: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the capital housing grant application for housing made by each of the voluntary housing associations to his Department for each of the past four years; the value of each application; the location of the proposed schemes; the number of units to be built; the result of such application; if still pending a decision, the reason for same; and when a decision will be made. [22247/11]

Willie Penrose (Longford-Westmeath, Labour)
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Compilation of the detailed information sought, with regard to the number, location, status, value and decisions made or pending in relation to all applications received from local authorities in respect of proposals by individual approved housing bodies over the past four years, would involve an inordinate amount of staff time and resources. My Department will compile a spreadsheet, showing details of all the applications received from local authorities over that period together with a summary of the current status of each application, and this will be forwarded to the Deputy as soon as possible.