I propose to take Questions Nos. 381 and 393 together.
My Department, the Housing Agency and NAMA continue to work together with housing authorities and approved housing bodies towards identifying suitable NAMA housing units and bringing them into social housing use. It continues to be my Department's objective to maximise the delivery of social housing using all of the resources available. My priority is the provision of social housing units and that is where the focus remains in this process. A breakdown by county of the units identified, deemed suitable and completed or contracted is shown in the table. Of the 4,351 units identified by NAMA currently 1,900 have been deemed suitable and of these 443 have completed or been contracted.
County
|
Identified
|
Suitable
|
Complete/Contracted
|
Carlow
|
137
|
82
|
55
|
Cavan
|
47
|
-
|
-
|
Clare
|
169
|
19
|
7
|
Cork
|
471
|
271
|
36
|
Cork City
|
419
|
202
|
53
|
Donegal
|
95
|
59
|
-
|
Dublin City
|
628
|
252
|
55
|
Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown
|
328
|
122
|
58
|
Fingal
|
203
|
45
|
20
|
Galway
|
84
|
44
|
-
|
Galway City
|
117
|
117
|
45
|
Kerry
|
90
|
52
|
15
|
Kildare
|
243
|
97
|
57
|
Kilkenny
|
167
|
96
|
-
|
Laois
|
98
|
10
|
-
|
Leitrim
|
35
|
-
|
-
|
Limerick
|
112
|
9
|
9
|
Longford
|
31
|
11
|
-
|
Louth
|
27
|
27
|
27
|
Mayo
|
66
|
58
|
-
|
Meath
|
203
|
38
|
-
|
Monaghan
|
35
|
30
|
-
|
North Tipperary
|
13
|
-
|
-
|
Offaly
|
79
|
64
|
-
|
Roscommon
|
91
|
1
|
-
|
Sligo
|
46
|
15
|
-
|
South Dublin
|
60
|
42
|
-
|
South Tipperary
|
24
|
-
|
-
|
Waterford
|
65
|
27
|
-
|
Westmeath
|
42
|
29
|
4
|
Wexford
|
90
|
74
|
2
|
Wicklow
|
36
|
7
|
-
|
Total
|
4,351
|
1,900
|
443
|
Currently my Department is making recoupments under the Social Housing Leasing Initiative on 93 NAMA-related housing units in Dun Laoghaire, Dublin City, Kildare and Louth. The combined annual cost of lease payments in respect of these units is just over €897,000. In addition my Department has provided capital funding of some €22m in the form of Capital Assistance, Social Housing Investment and Capital Advances to help secure 221 units of those either completed or contracted.