Tommy Broughan (Dublin Bay North, Independent)
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519. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the average amount of time a person can expect to wait before being housed by Dublin City Council and Fingal County Council by category, for example, one bed unit, two bed, three bed, seniors and so on; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48011/17]

Eoghan Murphy (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael)
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My Department does not hold precise detailed statistical information of the type requested by the Deputy. However, the Summary of Social Housing Assessments (SSHA) does provide information on the length of time spent by those qualified and seeking social housing support on local authority waiting lists.  

The most recent statutory SSHA for which results are available was carried out as at 21 September 2016, providing details on the number of households qualified for social housing support in each local authority. The 2016 results provide a breakdown by each local authority across a range of categories, including by household composition and length of time spent by households on the record of qualified households.  The results are available on my Department’s website at the following link:

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Based on the results from the 2016 Summary, the average times spent, in terms of the mean and median values, by households on the record of qualified households as at 21 September 2016 are as follows:

My Department is finalising the results of the 2017 SSHA and I expect that the data will be ready for publication within the next few weeks.