asked the Minister for Local Government if he will state in relation to housing standards (1) the percentage of existing houses with (a) running water, (b) bathroom or shower and in relation to new dwellings completed in 1967 (2) (a) the number (b) the number per 1,000 inhabitants and (c) the number of subsidised dwellings as a percentage of total built.
Written Answers. - Housing Standards.
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As regards the first part of the question. I would refer the Deputy to my reply to Question No. 28 of the 2nd December. The 1961 census of population indicated that 33 per cent of all dwellings had the use of a fixed bath. Practically all of the 85,000 dwellings built and a substantial proportion of the 41,000 dwellings improved since then by the installation of piped water have a fixed bath or shower installed.
Table I of the White Paper, "Housing in the Seventies", which I issued last June shows the number of dwellings completed in each year from 1960-61 to 1968-69; the number built per 1,000 of the population in 1967 is set out in Appendix V of the paper. State grants or subsidies are paid for approximately 98 per cent of all dwellings completed in recent years.