COMHAIRLE CONTAE ÁTHA CLIATH THEAS
SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

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MEETING OF SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

Monday, November 11, 2013

QUESTION NO. 10

QUESTION: Councillor D. Looney

To ask the Manager to provide a report on the current housing list for South Dublin County Council, including therein a comparison with previous years, and to make a statement on the matter?

REPLY:

At 31st October 2013 there are 7,279 applications for housing included on South Dublin County Council's Housing List compared to March 2013 when there were 10,361 applications on the List.  The difference arose as the Council carried out the tri-annual Housing Needs Assessment earlier this year and issued correspondence to all those on the housing list requesting reply through completion of assessment form. 35% of those failed to reply resulting in 3,674 housing applications being cancelled.  To date 300 of these applicants have made contact and have had their applications re-activated.

It must be noted that under legislation introduced in 2011 housing applicants can only apply to one Local Authority.  The chart below outlines the Housing list at 31st October for respective years:-

2013 7,279
2012 10,445
2011 9,946
2010 9,826
2009 8,416