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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

Monday, December 14, 2015

QUESTION NO.11

QUESTION: Councillor G. O'Connell

To ask the Chief Executive for an update report on the housing situation in this County, and to indicate in his reply (a) The numbers on the Housing list in January 2015 (b) The numbers on the housing list on the 1st December 2015 (c) The number of houses -units- completed in year to date (d) the number of houses -units- currently under construction (e) the number of homeless currently on the Housing list (f) the number of Homeless housed year to date, and could he please make a statement on the issues involved.

REPLY:

 The table below reflects the postion in relation to units currently under construction.

Scheme Address		Estimated Delivery   Date
Suncroft Tallaght	10 dwellings	2nd Quarter 2016
	2   dwellings	2nd Quarter 2016
Belgard Road   Tallaght (traveller accommodation)	3 dwellings	1st Quarter 2016
Total	15

At 1st January 2015 there were 8,564 households on the Council's housing waiting list, at 1st December 2015 there were 8,876 households, please note housing applicants who availed of the HAP scheme were placed on a transfer list in accordance with leglislation. 

As at the end of November, 2015 there are currently 240 registered on the homeless priority list.  This list is comprised of single people, couples and families.  There are also an additonal 64 families in temporary accommodation in Tallaght Cross. Currently 116 homeless individuals/families have been housed through Social Housing, Approved Housing Bodies & HAP.