Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 6 December 2016
203. Deputy John Curran asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the number of houses and apartments purchased by each local authority in 2015 and to date in 2016, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38712/16]
View answerUnder my Department’s Social Housing Capital Investment Programme, funding is provided to local authorities to deliver additional social housing stock through new construction projects and through the acquisition of new and previously owned houses/apartments. Details on properties purchased by local authorities for letting to those on their social housing waiting list are available on my Department’s website at the following link:
http://www.housing.gov.ie/sites/default/files/attachments/1c1-la-acq-by-area_4.xlsx.
Information on quarter three of 2016 is currently being finalised and will be published shortly, while details for the entirety of 2016 will be available in early 2017.
