Dáil Éireann debate -
Tuesday, 30 Jan 1990

Vol. 394 No. 8

Written Answers. - Local Authority Housing Facilities.

Eamon Gilmore

Question:

318 Mr. Gilmore asked the Minister for the Environment , in respect of each local authority, the number of local authority rented dwellings which (a) have no bathroom (b) have no indoor toilet and (c) have only one water tap.

Minister of State at the Department of the Environment (Mr. Connolly)

The information, in so far as it is available in the Department from local authorities, is as follows:

Local Authority	Houses and Flats
(1)	(2)
No indoor toilet	No bathroom/ shower
County Councils
Carlow	nil	nil
Cavan	25	30
Clare	2	2
Cork (North)	26	45
Cork (South)	27	27
Cork (West)	50	50
Donegal	nil	nil
Dublin	2	5
Galway	nil	nil
Kerry	28	28
Kildare	10*	10*
Kilkenny	14	48
Laois	nil	nil
Leitrim	nil	nil
Limerick	24	27
Longford	36	38
Louth	30	40
Mayo	nil	nil
Meath	nil	nil
Monaghan	nil	nil
Offaly	3	6
Roscommon	1	2
Sligo	6	6
Tipperary (NR)	13	13
Tipperary (SR)	35	35
Waterford	18	24
Westmeath	7	9
Wexford	19*	19*
Wicklow	23	24
County Borough Corporations
Cork	531	1,380
Dublin	N/A	2,954
Galway	nil	25
Limerick	nil	507
Waterford	403	403
Borough Corporations
Clonmel	nil	nil
Drogheda	47	116
Dún Laoghaire	203	758
Kilkenny	25	124
Sligo	nil	157
Wexford	16	146
Urban District Councils
Arklow	nil	nil
Athlone	44*	25*
Athy	nil	nil
Ballina	nil*	64*
Ballinasloe	nil	5
Birr	8*	35*
Bray	16	100
Buncrana	nil	nil
Bundoran	nil	nil
Carlow	40	53
Carrickmacross	nil	nil
Carrick-on-Suir	nil	42
Cashel	30	21
Castlebar	nil	8
Castleblaney	nil	7
Cavan	64	64
Ceanannus Mór	nil	nil
Clonakilty	1*	1*
Clones	nil	20
Cobh	7	32
Dundalk	n/a	n/a
Dungarvan	4	81
Ennis	nil	nil
Enniscorthy	36	40
Fermoy	14*	14*
Killarney	5	5
Kilrush	nil	28
Kinsale	nil	nil
Letterkenny	nil	nil
Listowel	nil	26
Longford	18	18
Macroom	nil*	20*
Mallow	15	24
Midleton	nil	nil
Monaghan	4	4
Naas	nil	nil
Navan	14	19
Nenagh	30*	33*
New Ross	36*	36*
Skibbereen	2	2
Templemore	nil	14
Thurles	2	15
Tipperary	nil	51
Tralee	12	146
Trim	nil	nil
Tullamore	18	49
Westport	nil	1
Wicklow	nil	nil
Youghal	nil	nil
Town Commissioners
Ardee	1	1
Balbriggan	n/a	n/a
Ballybay	4	4
Ballyshannon	5	5
Bandon	n/a	n/a
Bantry	nil	nil
Belturbet	nil	5
Boyle	n/a	n/a
Callan	3	3
Cootehill	nil	16
Droichead Nua	n/a	n/a
Edenderry	1	1
Gorey	2	nil
Granard	nil	nil
Greystones	nil	nil
Kilkee	nil	5
Leixlip	n/a	n/a
Lismore	nil	nil
Loughrea	nil	nil
Mountmellick	4	4
Muine Bheag	6	6
Mullingar	n/a	n/a
Newcastlewest	n/a	n/a
Passage West	nil	nil
Portlaoise	n/a	n/a
Rathkeale	nil	nil
Roscommon	n/a	n/a
Tuam	nil	21

Notes:

(i) The figures are based on housing authority returns which show the position at 31 December 1988 except in those cases marked * where, in the absence of more recent information, the figures relate to 31 December 1987.

(ii) The same dwellings would normally be included in both columns 1 and 2.

(iii) N/A = not available.