Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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497. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the amount of undeveloped land is in the ownership of local authorities for the purpose of providing local authority housing and a breakdown of this information for each local authority; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1047/14]

Jan O'Sullivan (Limerick City, Labour)
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For the past number of years my Department has compiled statistics on various aspects of housing including statistics on the supply of housing land. A recent survey on the availability of housing land shows 13,707 hectares of serviced land was available for housing at July 2012 and of that 525 hectares was owned by local authorities and earmarked by them for social and affordable housing programmes.

Details of the full survey are available at under the page Latest House Building and Private Rented Statistics.

The breakdown of the 525 hectares owned by local authority is as follows:

All suitable sites owned by Local Authorities will be considered in the context of future social housing building programmes.