Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Expenditure on Housing. – Dáil Éireann (18th Dáil) – Thursday, 16 May 1968

Mr. James Tully

asked the Minister for Local Government if he will state the amount of the housing component of the public capital programme in 1956-57 to 1968-69 inclusive in expansion of the Table on page 237 of Economic Development, 1958, subdividing the housing component into expenditure on private houses and public authority houses.

Mr. Boland

As the reply is in the form of a tabular statement I propose, with your permission, A Cheann Comhairle, to have it circulated with the Official Report.

Following is the statement:—

PUBLIC CAPITAL PROGRAMME, 1956-57 TO 1968-69

	Housing
Financial Year	Private	Local Authority	Total	All Purposes
		£ million
1956-57	5.71	7.27	12.98	45.67
1957-58	3.90	4.64	8.54	41.17
1958-59	3.51	3.74	7.25	37.89
1959-60	4.58	3.30	7.88	44.09
1960-61	5.89	2.81	8.70	51.27
1961-62	6.09	3.23	9.32	57.24
1962-63	6.94	3.94	10.88	65.83
1963-64	8.22	4.81	13.03	78.50
1964-65	9.17	7.24	16.41	97.81
1965-66	10.65	10.59	21.24	99.29
1966-67	10.56	11.09	21.65	97.64
1967-68*	11.56	14.25	25.81	111.38
1968-69†	13.31	15.50	28.81	136.36

*Provisional.

†Capital Budget provision.

The figures are based as far as possible on audited expenditure. Those for private housing comprise capital expenditure by the State on housing grants and by local authorities on house purchase and reconstruction loans and supplementary housing grants. For the years 1963-64 to 1968-69 inclusive, capital expenditure on housing—of about £1.03 million to £1.75 million a year—by the National Building Agency, Roinn na Gaeltachta and the Shannon Free Airport Development Company, Ltd., is also included.

Dáil Éireann debate -
Thursday, 16 May 1968