John Brady (Wicklow, Sinn Fein)
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217. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the number of units of social housing which have been acquired or completed by local authorities under the social housing investment programme in 2016 to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29347/16]

Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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Under my Department’s Social Housing Investment Programme, funding is provided to local authorities to support the development of new social housing units, through the acquisition and construction of houses and apartments to accommodate persons on local authority social housing waiting lists.

Data on the number of units acquired and constructed in respect of all local authorities funded by direct capital investment from my Department is published on my Department’s website at the following links:

At the end of quarter 2 2016, a total of 117 units were completed under the construction programme and a further 430 units purchased by local authorities.