Pearse Doherty (Donegal South West, Sinn Fein)
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Question 458: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the number of CAS applications received in the 2012 round; the number of these received for homeless accommodation; when decisions will issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32007/12]

Jan O'Sullivan (Limerick City, Labour)
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Under the Capital Assistance Scheme (CAS), funding of up to 100% of the approved cost is available for the provision of accommodation to meet the needs of persons with specific categories of housing need including older people, people with an intellectual, physical or mental health disability, the homeless, returning emigrants and victims of domestic violence. The administration of the scheme, including the nomination of tenants from the local authority housing list, is the responsibility of the relevant housing authority.

My Department is currently examining the proposals submitted by housing authorities for inclusion in a limited programme of works for funding under CAS over the 2012-2014 period. I intend to announce details of the projects to be included under the CAS programme very shortly. Given that individual approved housing bodies may cater for a range of special housing needs and that the accommodation provided by these bodies may be multi-purpose, it is not possible definitively to state the number of proposals which, in whole or in part, are intended for homeless accommodation. However, of the 205 proposals received some 67 of these provide for some level of homeless accommodation.