Update: Housing Crisis – Public Expenditure 9th October, 2014

QUESTION NO:  66
DÁIL QUESTION addressed to the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (Deputy Brendan Howlin)
by Deputy Bernard J. Durkan
for WRITTEN ANSWER on 09/10/2014 

 To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if it is possible to approve a mechanism to fund the purchase of existing and or construction of new houses by the local authorities to meet the ever increasing housing crisis; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
 
REPLY.

As part of the Estimates and Budgetary process for 2015, the Government will be considering  all options for increasing the supply of social housing, including the  funding of  the purchase of existing houses and the construction of new  houses by local authorities.