Barry Cowen (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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438. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide in tabular form on a county basis the total social housing waiting list in 2011, 2012, 2013 and to date in 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17881/14]

Barry Cowen (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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439. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide in tabular form on a county basis the average and mean waiting time on the social housing waiting list; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17882/14]

Jan O'Sullivan (Limerick City, Labour)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 438 and 439 together.

The report on the 2011 Housing Needs Assessment, contains details on waiting list numbers for each local authority which were recorded from 1993 to 2011 under the tri-annual social housing needs assessment carried out under Section 9 of the Housing Act 1988. The report is available on my Department’s website at

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The latest social housing needs assessment was carried out as at 7 May 2013 in accordance with section 20 of the Housing (scellaneous Provisions) Act 2009 and the results are also available on my Department’s website at

The 2011 and 2013 reports include details on the length of time spent by qualified households on waiting lists by local authority.

The 2013 figures are the most up-to-date figures available on waiting list numbers, which are subject to on-going fluctuation due to households being allocated housing and new households applying for housing support.  However, the 2013 results cannot be directly compared to previous results given that this latest summary employed different methodologies and was the first to be carried out under the 2011 Social Housing Assessment Regulations.