Dessie Ellis (Dublin North West, Sinn Fein)
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234. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of applicants on the housing list, as of May 2015. [24170/15]

Alan Kelly (Tipperary North, Labour)
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The Summary of Social Housing Assessments 2013 identified 89,872 households assessed by local housing authorities as being eligible and in need of some form of social housing support as at 7 May 2013, and these results are the most up-to-date figures available on the number of households qualified for support. The Social Housing Strategy 2020, published in November 2014, includes a commitment to increase the regularity of the summary of social housing assessments by undertaking it on annual basis from 2016 onwards.