The results of the statutory assessment of local authority housing needs undertaken by local authorities in March 2002 indicated that a total of 48,413 households were in need of housing. This includes some 14,500 households in private rented accommodation with the benefit of supplementary welfare rent supplement. Detailed information on the results of the 2002 assessment was published in my Department's September 2002 quarterly edition of the housing statistics bulletin, copies of which are available in the Oireachtas Library. Local authorities completed or acquired 5,074 housing units in 2002. Details on an individual local authority basis are included in my Department's annual housing statistics bulletin for 2002. It is estimated that the total social and affordable housing output under the local authority housing programme taken with housing outputs from the voluntary housing sector and other social housing measures, as well as vacancies arising during the course of the year, will impact positively on waiting lists and meet the needs of some 13,000 households this year.