Pearse Doherty (Donegal South West, Sinn Fein)
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530. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of persons on the social housing list, by county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4245/16]

Pearse Doherty (Donegal South West, Sinn Fein)
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532. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of persons on each social housing list, by county, over the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4247/16]

Alan Kelly (Tipperary North, Labour)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 530 and 532 together.

The report on the 2011 Housing Needs Assessment contains details on waiting list numbers for each local authority which were recorded from 1993 to 2011 under the tri-annual social housing needs assessments carried out under Section 9 of the Housing Act 1988. The report is available on my Department’s website at:.

The latest social housing needs assessment was carried out as at 7 May 2013 in accordance with section 20 of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2009 and the results are also available on my Department’s website at:.

The 2013 figures are the most up-to-date figures available on waiting list numbers. Further summaries of social housing assessments will be carried out on an annual basis from this year and will provide up-to-date and comprehensive data on the numbers of households qualified for social housing support on an on-going basis.