John Deasy (Waterford, Fine Gael)
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1721. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of local authority dwellings that have been built in each housing authority area in the past 20 years; and the number of these that were acquired under the tenant purchase scheme, by council area, for this period. [54602/17]

Eoghan Murphy (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael)
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Through the supports made available from my Department, 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, including through working with approved housing bodies.

Details on the number of properties built and purchased in all local authority areas, for letting to those on the social housing waiting lists, are available on my Department’s website at the following link:

. Information on quarter four of 2017 will be published once finalised.

Information on sale of local authority houses up to 2016 is also available by local authority on my Department's website at the following link:

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Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein)
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1722. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the stock of social housing in each of the years 2010 to 2017, by local authority; and the stock owned by local authorities and approved housing bodies respectively, in tabular form. [54642/17]

Eoghan Murphy (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael)
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Statistics in relation to the social housing stock of local authorities are gathered by the National Oversight and Audit Commission (NOAC), in their annual reports on Performance Indicators in Local Authorities. These reports provide a range of information in relation to social housing stock, including the total number of dwellings in each local authority area.

The most recent NOAC report covers the 2015 period and is available at the following link: . Prior to NOAC's work in this area, the Local Government Management Agency (LGMA) published Performance Indicator Reports from 2004 to 2014, which are available on their website at the following link: .

My Department does not record details of the number of houses owned by approved housing bodies.  However, details on the number of accommodation units delivered by approved housing bodies under my Department's Capital Assistance Scheme, Capital Advance Leasing Facility and the Capital Loan and Subsidy Scheme since 2010 are available on my Department's website at the following link: .