Seán Crowe (Dublin South West, Sinn Fein)
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40. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the number of newly built social housing units that have been constructed in Dublin 16 and 24 in the past 12 months in tabular form. [16993/17]

Aengus Ó Snodaigh (Dublin South Central, Sinn Fein)
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62. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the number of newly built social housing units that have been constructed in Dublin 8 and 12 in the past 12 months in tabular form. [17116/17]

Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 40 and 62 together.

My Department has published a comprehensive status list of all social housing construction schemes that are advancing nationwide, as at end-Quarter 4 of 2016. Over 500 approved schemes were listed that, when completed, will deliver some 8,500 new social homes. The schemes range from those that are being designed, through to  those currently on site and those completed in 2016. It showed that over 650 new social houses were built in 2016 and a further 90 schemes, delivering over 1,800 newly built social houses, went on site last year.

Details of the individual projects involved are set out in the status list, which is  available on the Rebuilding Ireland website at the following link:

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A range of other actions are also underway by local authorities to respond to housing need.These include targeted acquisitions, the new Repair and Leasing initiative, rapid delivery housing, and the full roll-out of the Housing Assistance Payment Scheme.