Social and Affordable Housing Expenditure

Thursday, 2 October 2014

Questions (196)

Catherine Murphy

Question:

196. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the amounts awarded, broken down by local authority area, under the capital loan and subsidy scheme for social housing in each year of its operation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37542/14]

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Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government

The Capital Loan and Subsidy Scheme commenced in 1991 to provide mortgage finance to approved housing bodies by way of loans from the Housing Finance Agency, to meet the cost of social rented accommodation for low-income families.

From the scheme’s commencement to end-2013, the housing bodies have provided over 10,000 units of accommodation with loans approved to the value of over €1.5 billion from the Housing Finance Agency. A breakdown of these approvals and the number of units per local authority is set out in the following table. The information requested for each year is being compiled and will be forwarded to the Deputy as soon as possible.

Capital Loan and Subsidy Scheme

Local Authority	Amount Approved	Units
Carlow	26,503,040	254
Cavan	7,701,913	48
Clare	13,971,816	131
Cork City	43,186,070	258
Cork North	27,108,037	203
Cork South	73,605,819	428
Donegal	57,271,240	452
Dublin City	334,035,473	1 , 731
Dun Laoire/Rathdown	89,170,836	366
Dundalk town	44,140,775	334
Drogheda Borough	27,057,748	226
Louth	17,893,594	99
Fingal	113,388,684	607
Galway	20,847,020	179
Galway City	19,655,905	180
Kerry	24,461,969	179
Kildare	57,735,757	509
Kilkenny	10,268,163	137
Laois	42,010,048	271
Leitrim	5,377,918	44
Limerick	14,677,176	103
Limerick City	8,558,008	99
Longford	29,470,658	200
Mayo	25,549,327	205
Meath	19,674,375	180
Monaghan	8,458,005	76
Offaly	28,790,094	271
Roscommon	4,072,442	35
Sligo	15,754,862	155
Sligo Borough	7,868,989	110
South Dublin	149,430,895	941
Tipperary North	47,870,933	280
Tipperary South	48,790,394	418
Waterford	12,999,288	141
Waterford City	31,129,791	268
Wexford	27,012,228	281
Wexford Borough	3,709,924	29
Wicklow	7,939,266	92