Dáil Éireann debate -
Tuesday, 1 Jun 1999

Vol. 505 No. 6

Written Answers. - Local Authority Housing.

Jim O'Keeffe

Question:

191 Mr. J. O'Keeffe asked the Minister for the Environment and Local Government the number of people on local authority housing lists; and the number of local authority houses being built in 1999 in Cork county and city. [14336/99]

Minister of State at the Department of the Environment and Local Government (Mr. Molloy)

I assume the Deputy is referring to the number of people on the local authority housing lists in Cork county and city.

All the local authorities in Cork county and city carried out their statutory assessments of housing needs on 31 March last and a full analysis of the assessment by each authority is to be forwarded to my Department. I expect to be in a position to have the results from all 90 local authorities published in my Department's housing statistics bulletin for the September quarter, as had been the practice with previous assessments.

Details of the number of houses which each of the local authorities in Cork is authorised to build or acquire under the 1999 housing programme are available in a statement on housing starts which was placed in the Oireachtas Library on 18 January 1999.