Dessie Ellis (Dublin North West, Sinn Fein)
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346. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of square feet of vacant land for housing currently in the possession of local authorities. [30367/14]

Jan O'Sullivan (Limerick City, Labour)
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My Department compiles statistics on various aspects of housing including those on the supply of housing land. A recent survey on the availability of housing land shows 525 hectares was owned by local authorities and earmarked by them for social and affordable housing programmes. All suitable sites owned by Local Authorities will be considered in any future social building housing programme.

Dessie Ellis (Dublin North West, Sinn Fein)
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347. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide a list of all properties currently in the ownership of his Department or local authorities respectively which are not in use and have no plans for their use other than including the specifications of the properties and detailing the square feet that each of the respective properties take up. [30368/14]

Dessie Ellis (Dublin North West, Sinn Fein)
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348. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of completed vacant properties which are not available for sale or rent and have not been for the preceding 36 months that there are in the State; and if he will provide an estimate of their respective market values. [30369/14]

Jan O'Sullivan (Limerick City, Labour)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 347 and 348 together.

There are no properties owned, leased or rented by my Department which are not currently in use. In the case of the local authority social housing stock, the Ninth Annual Report on Service Indicators, published by the Local Government Management Agency in March 2014, which sets out the position in relation to 2012, provides a range of information in relation to social housing stock, including information on the number of units and in relation to vacant dwellings. Copies of the report are available from the Local Government Management Agency and may be downloaded from their website at the following weblink:

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Information on other types of vacant local authority property outside of the social housing stock and information on the numbers of private properties which are unoccupied but not available to rent or buy is not avail able in my Department.