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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

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MEETING OF SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

Monday, October 17, 2016

QUESTION NO.17

QUESTION: Councillor C. O'Connor

To ask the Chief Executive to confirm if he is maintaining contact with the Minister for Housing, stressing the need for additional funding to continue his actions to deal with the Housing/Homeless crisis in our county and in reporting will he confirm the number of applications currently being considered.  

REPLY:

Officials of South Dublin County Council's  (SDCC) Housing Department meet on a regular basis with government officials for the purpose of discussing, monitoring and reviewing progress in relation to the financial requirements of the Housing Capital Build Programme 2015-2017.  Further, formal financial reports including projections are notified to the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government on a fortnightly basis, which reflect the timelines for project stage delivery as reported to Council. These reports include Social Housing Build Programme, the Acquisitions Programme and the Capital Assistance Scheme. Units delivered on foot of these schemes are allocated to persons on the Council's Housing List including those registered as homeless, in accordance with SDCC's Allocations Policy.