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Dáil Éireann debate -
Wednesday, 20 Feb 1980

Vol. 318 No. 1

Written Answers. - Housing Applicants.

512.

asked the Minister for the Environment the number of approved housing applicants in each housing authority area as at 31 December 1979.

Details of the number of approved applications for rehousing on hands of local housing authorities in each area at 31 December 1979, are not available to my Department. The following is a statement of the position at 30 September 1979:

Approved applications for rehousing on hands of local housing authorities at 30th September, 1979

Housing Authority

Number of approved1 applications

County Councils:

Carlow

197

Cavan

521

Clare

177

Cork (North)

289

Cork (South)

260

Cork (West)

not available

County Councils:

Donegal

726

Dublin

1,590

Galway

423

Kerry

1,067

Kildare

not available

Kilkenny

44

Laois

220

Leitrim

180

Limerick

445

Longford

369

Louth

299

Mayo

988

Meath

681

Monaghan

352

Offaly

203

Roscommon

315

Sligo

147

Tipperary N.R.

175

Tipperary S.R.

221

Waterford

146

Westmeath

213

Wexford

1,354

Wicklow

450

County Boroughs:

Cork

1,305

Dublin

5,463

Limerick

794

Waterford

517

Urban District Councils:

Arklow

71

Athlone

103

Athy

81

Ballina

184

Ballinasloe

104

Birr

18

Bray

291

Buncrana

6

Bundoran

12

Carlow

134

Carrickmacross

87

Carrick-on-Suir

62

Cashel

46

Castlebar

44

Castleblayney

66

Cavan

120

Ceanannus Mór

not available

Clonakilty

19

Clones

54

Clonmel

58

Cobh

193

Drogheda

not available

Dundalk

333

Dungarvan

118

Dún Laoghaire

356

Ennis

34

Enniscorthy

not available

Fermoy

not available

Galway

268

Kilkenny

315

Killarney

99

Kilrush

19

Kinsale

not available

Urban District Councils: (contd.)

Letterkenny

103

Listowel

43

Longford

181

Macroom

10

Mallow

77

Midleton

44

Monaghan

72

Naas

not available

Navan

35

Nenagh

80

New Ross

50

Skibbereen

Nil

Sligo

350

Templemore

44

Thurles

17

Tipperary

146

Tralee

301

Trim

36

Tullamore

116

Westport

83

Wexford

267

Wicklow

40

Youghal

8

Notes:

1. The figures in the statement are based on returns submitted to my Department by local housing authorities and relate to applications which they had on hands at 30th September, 1979, the latest date for which the information is available to my Department.

2. The figure for Dublin Corporation relates to the position at 1st January, 1980.

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