Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 15 January 2014
497. Deputy Simon Harris asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the amount of undeveloped land that is in the ownership of local authorities for the purpose of providing local authority housing and a breakdown of this information for each local authority; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1047/14]
View answerFor the past number of years my Department has compiled statistics on various aspects of housing including statistics on the supply of housing land. A recent survey on the availability of housing land shows 13,707 hectares of serviced land was available for housing at July 2012 and of that 525 hectares was owned by local authorities and earmarked by them for social and affordable housing programmes.
Details of the full survey are available at http://www.environ.ie/en/Publications/StatisticsandRegularPublications/HousingStatistics/ under the page Latest House Building and Private Rented Statistics.
The breakdown of the 525 hectares owned by local authority is as follows:
|
Local Authority |
Local Authority owned zoned serviced land earmarked for social and affordable development |
|
- |
Hectares |
|
Carlow County Council |
25 |
|
Cavan County Council |
9 |
|
Clare County Council |
48 |
|
Cork County Council |
24 |
|
Cork City Council |
33 |
|
Donegal |
0 |
|
Dun Laoghaire – Rathdown County Council |
14 |
|
Fingal County Council |
44 |
|
South Dublin County Council |
40 |
|
Dublin City Council |
0 |
|
Galway County Council |
12 |
|
Galway City Council |
19 |
|
Kerry County Council |
12 |
|
Kildare County Council |
40 |
|
Kilkenny County Council |
0 |
|
Laois County Council |
0 |
|
Leitrim County Council |
2 |
|
Limerick County Council |
12 |
|
Limerick City Council |
0 |
|
Longford County Council |
0 |
|
Louth County Council |
17 |
|
Mayo County Council |
23 |
|
Meath County Council |
16 |
|
Monaghan County Council |
3 |
|
North Tipperary County Council |
4 |
|
Offaly |
0 |
|
Roscommon County Council |
15 |
|
Sligo County Council |
23 |
|
South Tipperary County Council |
38 |
|
Waterford County Council |
0 |
|
Waterford City Council |
0 |
|
Westmeath County Council |
9 |
|
Wexford County Council |
1 |
|
Wicklow County Council |
42 |
All suitable sites owned by Local Authorities will be considered in the context of future social housing building programmes.
