Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 31 January 2017
286. Deputy Michael D'Arcy asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the number of affordable housing estates that were funded by his Department in each of the years 2014 to 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3840/17]
View answer287. Deputy Michael D'Arcy asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the number of affordable houses that were sold nationwide in each of the years 2014 to 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3841/17]
View answerI propose to take Questions Nos. 286 and 287 together.
The provision by local authorities of affordable housing under the Affordable Housing Scheme 1999 was not funded by my Department, but by loans from the Housing Finance Agency. In 2011 the Government announced the standing down of the provision of Affordable Housing (the 1999 Affordable Housing Scheme, affordable housing under Part V of the Planning and Development Act 2000, and the Affordable Housing Initiative).
Local authorities have been carrying a certain stock of unsold affordable houses, mainly acquired under Part V, which they generally have been renting to social housing tenants. A small number of such houses may have been sold by local authorities in recent years; my Department does not hold information in relation to this matter.
