Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 30 April 2014
453. Deputy Joe Higgins asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the number of persons or families currently on the social housing waiting lists in the four Dublin local authorities and the number among them who have been on those waiting lists for five years or more. [18768/14]
View answerThe results of the most recent statutory summary of social housing assessments, which was carried out in 2013, detail the number of households on all local authority waiting lists as at 7 May 2013. The results include details on the length of time spent by qualified households on waiting lists by each local authority and are available on my Department’s website at: http://www.environ.ie/en/Publications/DevelopmentandHousing/Housing/FileDownLoad,34857,en.pdf.
The 2013 figures are the most up-to-date figures available on waiting list numbers, which are subject to on-going fluctuation due to households being allocated housing and new households applying for housing support. However, the 2013 results cannot be directly compared to previous results given that this latest summary employed different methodologies and was the first to be carried out under the 2011 Social Housing Assessment Regulations.
