Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Independent)
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Question 167: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the number of applicants, individual or family, on local authority housing waiting lists by each local authority, county, city, borough and town council, and the required housing by size, one, two, three bed and so on, as of 31 December 2011. [2836/12]

Jan O'Sullivan (Limerick City, Labour)
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My Department does not hold information on the number of households on local authorities' waiting lists. This figure continuously fluctuates as households are allocated housing and new households apply for housing support. Detailed information on the latest statutory assessment of housing need carried out in March 2011, including a breakdown by housing authority, is available on my Department's website – www.environ.ie or on the Housing Agency's website at www.housing.ie. It is a matter for individual housing authorities to decide on the size of dwellings to be allocated to applicants on their waiting lists. This policy is decided in their Allocation Schemes, the making of which is a reserved function of the housing authority.