asked the Minister for the Environment if he will give an estimate of the number of tenants and occupants in the 25,000-35,000 controlled dwellings with a breakdown on a county by county basis of the number of such dwellings and the number of tenants and occupants.

As I indicated in my reply to Question No. 127 on 3 February 1981, there is no specific information available on the existing number of tenants of controlled dwellings. Neither is there specific information available on the existing number of occupants or the distribution of dwellings throughout the country. Accordingly, I am not in a position to add further to my reply on 3 February last.