Social and Affordable Housing Provision

Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 20 March 2013

Wednesday, 20 March 2013

Questions (371)

Dessie Ellis

Question:

371. Deputy Dessie Ellis asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the number of persons in social housing or awaiting social housing in the areas of Ballymun and Finglas, Dublin, respectively. [13973/13]

Written answers

Minister of State at the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government

My Department collates and publishes a wide range of housing and planning statistics that inform the preparation and evaluation of policy, and those data are available on my Department’s website www.environ.ie.

The 2011 assessment of housing need, available on the website, provide s an analysis of housing need broken down by county, city, borough and town councils but data are not collated at the level of detail necessary to identify districts such as Ballymun and Finglas.