Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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227. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the total number of houses acquired by the various local authorities for reletting to tenants on their housing lists on a county basis to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9486/17]

Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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Under my Department’s Social Housing Capital Investment and Social Housing Current Expenditure Programmes, funding is provided to local authorities to deliver additional social housing stock through new construction projects and through the acquisition of new and previously owned houses/apartments. Details on the number of properties constructed, purchased and leased by all local authorities, for letting to those on their social housing waiting lists are available on my Department’s website at the following link:

www.housing.gov.ie/housing/social-housing/social-and-affordble/overall-social-housing-provision.

Information on quarter four 2016 is currently being finalised and will be published shortly.

Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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228. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the total number of local authority houses directly under construction by the local authorities to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9487/17]

Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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On Monday last, I published a Social Housing Construction Projects Status Report, which lists all approved projects including those delivered in 2016 and those at various stages of advancement through planning, design and construction. This report can be accessed at the following link:

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The report contains a range of information in relation to each separate social housing construction project, including the local authority area, project name, AHB name where applicable, the number of units and the status of each application in terms of its current level of advancement.