Noel Grealish (Galway West, Independent)
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563. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide a breakdown, by each local authority, of the number of applications that have been lodged with his Department to purchase finished or semi-finished houses; when he will be making a decision on these applications; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18195/15]

Alan Kelly (Tipperary North, Labour)
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It is the responsibility of each local authority, as the housing authority for its area, to identify the social housing need and to make proposals to my Department in respect of the best response to this need within the available funding. The funding provided to local authorities under my Department’s Social Housing Capital Investment Programme supports both the development of new social housing units and the acquisition of units. Acquisition proposals are developed by local authorities and submitted to my Department on an on-going basis, particularly where there are specific social housing needs they are seeking to address and where there is good value for money available. Where such proposals are developed and submitted to my Department, they are assessed in relation to value-for-money and other criteria, and approval issues where appropriate.