Written answers
Tuesday, 10 March 2015
Department of Environment, Community and Local Government
Local Authority Housing Provision
John Browne (Wexford, Fianna Fail)
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511. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide in tabular form the number of houses built by Wexford County Council, including former town councils, for each year from 1970 until 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9999/15]
Alan Kelly (Tipperary North, Labour)
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My Department collates and publishes a wide range of housing statisticsthat inform the preparation and evaluation of policy. Data on local authority housing completions in the period since 1999 are included within this range, and are available on my Department’s website at by clicking “L.A housing output (1999+) By each Council” under the Social Housing Supports heading.
Data from 1970 to 1998, for Wexford Local Authorities, are provided in the table below:
Wexford LA new construction
| Year | Number of Units |
|---|---|
| 1969/70* | 70 |
| 1970/71* | 93 |
| 1971/72* | 190 |
| 1972/73* | 38 |
| 1973/74* | 114 |
| 1974** | 255 |
| 1975 | 458 |
| 1976 | 255 |
| 1977 | 200 |
| 1978 | 221 |
| 1979 | 185 |
| 1980 | 191 |
| 1981 | 175 |
| 1982 | 163 |
| 1983 | 155 |
| 1984 | 249 |
| 1985 | 257 |
| 1986 | 132 |
| 1987 | 107 |
| 1988 | 37 |
| 1989 | 31 |
| 1990 | 29 |
| 1991 | 53 |
| 1992 | 59 |
| 1993 | 41 |
| 1994 | 126 |
| 1995 | 123 |
| 1996 | 100 |
| 1997 | 143 |
| 1998 | 94 |
**April to December 1974
Finian McGrath (Dublin North Central, Independent)
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512. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the position regarding funding for refurbishment in respect of a housing estate (details supplied) in Dublin 5; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10008/15]
Alan Kelly (Tipperary North, Labour)
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The management and maintenance of local authority housing stock is a matter for the relevant local authority, in this case Dublin City Council, and it is open to local authorities to address maintenance or improvements to their housing stock from within their own resources.
My Department operates certain funding programmes to support the development and improvement of social housing and a local authority seeking funding under one of these programmes is required to make application to my Department. No such application for funding for the refurbishment of the estate in question has been received.
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