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Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 30 July 2020

Thursday, 30 July 2020

Questions (441, 448, 457, 465, 487, 494, 504, 522, 533, 540, 547, 556)

Réada Cronin

Question:

441. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of applicants for Rebuilding Ireland home loans from north County Kildare; the number that have been successful; the number that have been refused; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19777/20]

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Paul Donnelly

Question:

448. Deputy Paul Donnelly asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of applicants for Rebuilding Ireland home loans from Dublin 7 and 15; the number that have been successful; the number that have been refused; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19841/20]

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John Brady

Question:

457. Deputy John Brady asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of applicants for Rebuilding Ireland home loans to Wicklow County Council; the number that have been successful; the number that have been refused; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19890/20]

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Martin Browne

Question:

465. Deputy Martin Browne asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of applicants for Rebuilding Ireland home loans from each municipal district in County Tipperary; the number that have been successful; the number that have been refused; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19941/20]

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Pauline Tully

Question:

487. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of applicants for Rebuilding Ireland home loans from counties Cavan and Monaghan; the number that have been successful; the number that have been refused; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20187/20]

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Martin Kenny

Question:

494. Deputy Martin Kenny asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of applicants for Rebuilding Ireland home loans in counties Sligo, Leitrim, Roscommon and Donegal; the number that have been successful; the number that have been refused; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20274/20]

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Pearse Doherty

Question:

504. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of applicants for Rebuilding Ireland home loans from County Donegal; the number that have been successful; the number that have been refused; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20437/20]

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Johnny Guirke

Question:

522. Deputy Johnny Guirke asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of applicants for Rebuilding Ireland home loans in counties Meath and Westmeath by local authority; the number that have been successful; the number that have been refused; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20708/20]

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Martin Kenny

Question:

533. Deputy Martin Kenny asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of applicants for Rebuilding Ireland home loans in counties Sligo, Leitrim, Roscommon and Donegal; the number that have been successful; the number that have been refused; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20795/20]

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Pa Daly

Question:

540. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of applicants for Rebuilding Ireland home loans from Kerry County Council; the number that have been successful; the number that have been refused; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20805/20]

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Violet-Anne Wynne

Question:

547. Deputy Violet-Anne Wynne asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of applicants for Rebuilding Ireland home loans from County Clare; the number that have been successful; the number refused; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20898/20]

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Patricia Ryan

Question:

556. Deputy Patricia Ryan asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of applicants for Rebuilding Ireland home loans from County Kildare; the number that have been successful; the number that have been refused; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21013/20]

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Written answers

I propose to take Questions Nos. 441, 448, 457, 465, 487, 494, 504, 522, 533, 540, 547 and 556 together.

The Housing Agency provides a central support service which assesses applications for the Rebuilding Ireland Home Loan on behalf of local authorities and makes recommendations to the authorities to approve or refuse applications. Each local authority must have in place a credit committee and it is a matter for the committee to make the decision on applications for loans, in accordance with the regulations, having regard to the recommendations made by the Housing Agency.

I have asked the Agency to compile figures on the numbers of applications that it has assessed and recommended for approval/decline for each local authority since the scheme began. The most recent figures, as at the end of June 2020, are included in the below table-

Local Authority

Applications Assessed

Recommended to Approve

Recommended to Decline

Carlow County Council

95

35

60

Cavan County Council

26

9

17

Clare County Council

111

46

65

Cork City Council

278

116

162

Cork County Council

499

253

246

Donegal County Council

68

27

41

Dublin City Council

731

431

300

Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council

160

89

71

Fingal County Council

848

470

378

Galway City Council

127

66

61

Galway County Council

216

73

143

Kerry County Council

177

72

105

Kildare County Council

218

114

104

Kilkenny County Council

83

41

42

Laois County Council

153

73

80

Leitrim County Council

27

6

21

Limerick City & County Council

175

103

72

Longford County Council

66

33

33

Louth County Council

180

75

105

Mayo County Council

100

34

66

Meath County Council

373

235

138

Monaghan County Council

83

25

58

Offaly County Council

66

27

39

Roscommon County Council

71

31

40

Sligo County Council

77

36

41

South Dublin County Council

445

233

212

Tipperary County Council

171

72

99

Waterford City & County Council

146

48

98

Westmeath County Council

65

37

28

Wexford County Council

209

97

112

Wicklow County Council

282

129

153

 The next stages in the process are approval by and drawdown from the local authority. 

My Department publishes information on the overall number and value of (i) local authority loan approvals and (ii) local authority loan drawdowns. Local authority approval means that an official letter of offer has been sent to a borrower (and therefore relates to a specific property and loan amount).

Information on the Rebuilding Ireland Home Loan for 2019, including the number and value of mortgage approvals and drawdowns, as well as average loan amounts, are available on my Department's website at the following link:

https://www.housing.gov.ie/housing/statistics/house-prices-loans-and-profile-borrowers/local-authority-loan-activity

Information on the Rebuilding Ireland Home Loan for 2018 is also available through this link and can be found under local authority loans approved and local authority loans paid, however these figures are not detailed by loan type.  My Department recently issued data requests for the first two quarters of 2020 and more up to date figures will be made available in due course, as additional data is compiled.

The data collected for the Rebuilding Ireland Home Loan is on a local authority basis and is not broken down by postcode/area.

Question No. 442 answered with Question No. 438.
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