Brendan Smith (Cavan-Monaghan, Fianna Fail)
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215. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of persons on the local authority housing list in County Monaghan; the capital funding for house building, allocated to Monaghan County Council for each of the years 2015 to 2017; the number of housing units to be constructed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23976/15]

Brendan Smith (Cavan-Monaghan, Fianna Fail)
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216. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of persons on the local authority housing list in County Cavan; the capital funding for house building allocated to Cavan County Council for each of the years 2015 to 2017; the number of housing units to be constructed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23977/15]

Alan Kelly (Tipperary North, Labour)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 215 and 216 together.

The most recent Summary of Social Housing Assessments, carried out as at 7 May 2013, identified 741 households on the waiting lists of the Cavan housing authorities at that time, and 696 households on the waiting lists of the Monaghan housing authorities. The full results of the 2013 Summary are available on my Department’s website at the following link:.

With regard to funding and targets for the delivery of social housing, on 1 April last I announced targets for all local authorities to 2017. As part of this announcement, Monaghan County Council has been set a target of 205 social housing units, supported by €11.5m of investment, while Cavan County Council has a target of 240 units, supported by €12.5m of investment. This funding is being invested in a combination of building, buying and leasing schemes by the local authorities to accommodate people on the housing waiting lists.

On 5 May 2015 I announced a major social housing construction programme involving €312m of investment, comprising some 100 projects and 1,700 housing units, including new build projects in Counties Cavan and Monaghan. Full details, including the individual projects, the funding allocated and the number of units to be delivered across all local authorities, are available on my Department’s website at the following link:.

I stated at the time that this announcement was part of the first phase of direct-build projects under the Government's Social Housing Strategyand that further assessments of build proposals are being carried, which will result in the approval of additional projects, details of which will be announced in due course.