Barry Cowen (Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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150. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the reason his Department's social housing construction report Q4 states that there has been 283 rapid build units approved for construction by his Department while Dublin City Council state that only 153 units have been approved; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12694/17]

Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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At the end of 2016, as reported in the Social Housing Construction Quarter 4 Report, Rapid Delivery schemes yielding 283 units in the Dublin City Council area were at various stages of approval. Of these, 153 have been fully approved for construction, 22 of these units were delivered and occupied at Poppintree in Ballymun and a further 131 were under construction and will be delivered in 2017.