Brian Stanley (Laois, Sinn Fein)
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71. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the percentage of the 2016 capital allocation for new builds and house purchases that was expended in the first nine months of 2016; and if he will provide a breakdown per local authority of spending. [35226/16]

Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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Total funding of €933 million has been made available in 2016 for the provision of housing. This includes a capital provision of €180.12 million to support the provision of local authority housing through a programme of construction and acquisitions. To date in 2016, €137 million has been expended under the local authority programme, representing 76% of the 2016 allocation. Details of expenditure to date under the local authority capital programme by individual authority are given in the table.

The expenditure to date figure of €137 million includes a sum of €1.039 million for the procurement of housing for local authorities by the Housing Agency. As is normal with capital programmes, I anticipate a continued high level of spend in the remaining weeks to year end.