Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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82. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the extent to which he expects it may be feasible to encourage further investment in the public housing/procurement programme in order to address the serious housing crisis inherited from the previous administration with the emphasis on the number becoming homeless on a daily basis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42609/14]

Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour)
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Responsibility for developing housing policy,  proposals for its  funding and implementation  are primarily a matter for my colleague the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government. As indicated in my announcement of  a €2.2 billion investment for social housing  in the Budget, I understand that he will be shortly bringing forward a new  Social Housing Strategy that will contain more detailed proposals  in this regard.