asked the Minister for the Environment in respect of each housing authority the total number of dependent children of persons who are housing applicants at the latest date for which figures are available; and the total number of child dependants of housing applicants in the country as a whole.
Written Answers. - Housing Applicants' Dependants
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Information is not available in my Department in the form requested by the Deputy. The statistical information which is kept about approved waiting lists is abstracted by housing authorities on the basis of the number of persons on whose behalf each application for rehousing is made. The abstracted records do not identify, separately, the number of children included among such persons.