Charlie McConalogue (Donegal, Fianna Fail)
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261. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the number of local authority houses built in County Donegal in each of the years 2007 to 2016, inclusive; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11393/17]

Charlie McConalogue (Donegal, Fianna Fail)
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262. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the number of local authority houses to be built in County Donegal in each of the years 2017, 2018 and 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11394/17]

Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 261 and 262 together.

Details on the number of properties constructed by all local authorities, including Donegal County Council, for letting to those on their social housing waiting lists are available on my Department’s website at the following link: . Information on quarter four of 2016 is currently being finalised and will be published shortly.

A substantial pipeline of new social housing construction projects is already in place both in terms of local authority direct build and approved housing body projects. We are now seeing progress through this pipeline, as is evident in the Social Housing Construction Projects Status Report which I published on 20 February 2017.

The report contains a range of information , including projects delivered in 2016 and those at various stages of advancement through planning, design and construction. It also includes information such as 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. The report can be accessed at the following link: .

I expect that a number of the projects listed for Donegal County Council will be completed in 2017 and others will commence on site during 2017, as well as in the subsequent years; the precise timing for the advancement of each of these projects is a matter for the Council, in the first instance. Further project approvals are being added to the published list as they are developed by Donegal County Council and the other local authorities and forwarded to my Department. I am keen that all local authorities advance their social housing projects as speedily as possible and I have assured them that funding is in place to support their activity in this regard.