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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

Monday, October 23rd, 2017

QUESTION NO.7

QUESTION: Councillor E. Murphy

As a follow up to the question which I posed at the September Council meeting on the same issue could the Chief Executive please give details of the length of time that applicants for social housing have been on the housing list. Can this please be explicitly broken down to reflect the exact year of application to the Council? Additionally can this data be further clarified by local electoral area.

REPLY:

At 31/08/2017 there were 8,160 applicants on the Council's housing waiting list, the table below shows size of accommodation needed and housing areas preferred - please note some applicants have expressed interest in both areas:-

DWELLING SIZE	NORTH OF THE NAAS ROAD	SOUTH OF THE NAAS ROAD
1 Bedroom	1497	2176
2 Bedroom	1938	2335
3 Bedroom	1127	1135
4 Bedroom	121	121

The table below shows a breakdown of the Council's current housing waiting list of 8,160 by length of time on list:-

Years On List	Nos.
15 +	11
10 - 15	387
5 - 10	2868
up to 5	4894

As there are 8,000+ applications it is not possible to list each individually with date of application.

This data is not collected by local electoral areas. Applicants may be currently/temporarily living in one area within this county's administrative area or outside but wish to be permanently housed in another area. When making an application, the applicant choses only north or south of the Naas Road in this administrative area.