With your permission, a Cheann Comhairle, I propose to take Questions Nos. 19 and 20 together and, as the reply is in the form of a tabular statement, to have it circulated with the Official Report.
Following is the statement:
Local Authority Housing
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Dwellings provided by—
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County councils
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Urban housing authorities
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(1) Number of dwellings provided up to the 31st March, 1969
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92,667
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103,734
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(2) Loans outstanding at the 31st March, 1969
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£39,000,000
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£91,000,000
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(3) Loan charges met in 1968-69
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£3,000,000
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£6,400,000
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(4) Total expenditure in 1968-69:
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£
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£
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(a) capital
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3,750,000
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12,000,000
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(b) current
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4,100,000
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9,200,000
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(5) Receipts from rents and rates in 1968-69:
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|
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(a) rents
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550,000
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4,300,000
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(b) rates
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305,000
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2,706,000
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Notes;
(i) The statutory authority for the provision of dwellings by all local authorities is the Housing Act, 1966.
(ii)The figures at (2) to (5) inclusive are estimated.
(iii) The figures for current expenditure comprise expenditure on loan charges and on maintenance and administration. They do not include approximately £400,000 in loan charges on capital grants paid from the Transition Development Fund and the Vote for Local Government in the period from 1946-47 to 1955-56.
(iv)The figures for rates are the amounts paid, in lieu of rates, by tenants of local authority dwellings under section 9 of the Local Government (Rates on Small Dwellings) Act, 1928. They are not charges for the houses but for health, roads, etc. services provided by local authorities. They include some small amounts for rates on purchased local authority dwellings.