Tommy Broughan (Dublin Bay North, Independent)
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1309. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the number of social housing units directly built or provided by each county and city councils in each of the years 2008 to 2016 and to date in 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34270/17]

Eoghan Murphy (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael)
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Under my Department’s Social Housing Investment Programme, funding is available to all local authorities to deliver additional social housing stock through new construction projects and through the acquisition of new and previously owned houses/apartments for social housing use. Details on the number of properties purchased and built by all local authorities for the period 2008 to 2016, 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, with information on quarter one of 2017 to follow thereafter.