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ASSESSMENT OF NEEDSAs part of the Department’s strategic review of the Housing Programme acomprehensive assessment of needs nationwide was carried out by each localauthority in the first quarter of 2005. This work involved Mayo County Council incompiling a very detailed data set on all applicants for housing in the county whichhas been transferred to the Department of the Environment for co-ordination and crosschecking. The Department will use this review to eliminate duplication and toaccurately assess the priority and need of all housing applicants nationwide. It isanticipated that this National Needs Assessment will be published early in 2006. Thefigures produced by the Mayo assessment are summarised in the table below. Thesefigures will be used to target the work of the Housing Programme over the next threeyears.HOUSING NEEDS ASSESSMENT 2002/2005Initial Applications as of 31 st May, 2005Housing Authority 2002 Assessment 2005 AssessmentMayo County Council 750 51% 740 53%Ballina Town Council 195 13.5% 262 19%Castlebar TownCouncil 383 26% 222 16%Westport TownCouncil 137 9.5% 174 12%1465 1398CAPITAL ROGRAMME FOR 2004 – 2008Allocating the resources available on the basis of the approval given by theDepartment for each particular type of accommodation in the Housing Action Plan2004 – 2008 gives the annual starts targets for each area. These starts are summarisedin the following Table, and will be used to manage the Programme over the comingthree years.11