Michael Colreavy (Sligo-North Leitrim, Sinn Fein)
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Question 23: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the number of social housing units that will be built in the next three years. [5922/12]

Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein)
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Question 51: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the number of social housing units that will be built in the next three years. [5914/12]

Jan O'Sullivan (Limerick City, Labour)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 23 and 51 together.

In line with the significant reduction in the capital funding available to my Department the scope for construction of new social housing units in the medium term will be very constrained. This is reflected in the Government's Housing Policy Statement of June 2011 which sets out the measures which will be taken to address housing need in an innovative solution-based approach which recognises the financial reality which must be faced. My Department asked housing authorities to submit their proposals for consideration for funding under the Social Housing Investment Programme for the next three years by the end of January. Once the proposals submitted have been assessed it will be possible to estimate the number of new social units to be built over the period. I hope to be in a position to make announcements in relation to budgets or allocations for the various housing supply programmes in early March.