Social and Affordable Housing Provision

Tuesday, 22 October 2013

Questions (362)

Pearse Doherty

Question:

362. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the number of houses in Dublin North West; if he will provide a breakdown of the location of any houses that have been transferred by the National Asset Management Agency to the local authorities for the purpose of alleviating social housing needs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44551/13]

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Minister of State at the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government

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. A breakdown by county of the units identified, deemed suitable and completed or contracted, at 30 September 2013, is shown in the table. Further data, including quarterly updates, in relation to the delivery of NAMA sourced units are available at the Housing Agency’s website; www.housing.ie/nama. My Department does not hold data on number s of houses o n a Dáil constituency basis.

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