Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 8 November 2018
300. Deputy Michael McGrath asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of loan approvals for house purchases in each year since 1996; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46344/18]
View answerMy Department has published statistics on loan approvals for house purchases from 1970 to the end of 2016. These statistics provide annual and quarterly breakdowns by type of property and can be found at the following link:
https://www.housing.gov.ie/housing/statistics/house-prices-loans-and-profile-borrowers/mortgage-market-statistics .
More recent data on loan approvals are published by Banking and Payments Federation Ireland.
