Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 22 March 2005
660 Mr. Cuffe asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the most recent years figures for the amount of local authority housing completions, demolitions and purchases; and if he will provide same for the previous four years. [8931/05]
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The number of houses completed or acquired by local authorities was 3,207 in 2000, 5,022 in 2001, 5,074 in 2002 and 4,972 in 2003. Detailed information is available in the annual housing statistics bulletins, copies of which are available in the Oireachtas Library. Information on the numbers of local authority housing units completed or acquired in 2004 is being finalised and will be published in the annual housing statistics bulletin.
661 Mr. Cuffe asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the most recent years figures for the amount of voluntary housing units completed; and if he will provide same for the previous four years. [8932/05]
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The available information on the number of units completed in each local authority area under voluntary housing schemes is published in the Department's quarterly and annual housing statistics bulletins, copies of which, including that for September 2004, are available in the Oireachtas Library. Figures for the rest of 2004 are being compiled and will be published in due course.
