Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 25 June 2015
242. Deputy Michael Colreavy asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if the Fairways estate in Ballygawley, County Sligo, will receive funding under the unfinished development special resolution fund. [25446/15]
Amharc ar fhreagraBudget 2014 contained a special provision, in the form of a targeted €10m Special Resolution Fund (SRF), to assist further in addressing the legacy of unfinished housing developments. The SRF is designed to encourage the resolution of the remaining tranche of unfinished developments identified in the National Housing Development Survey 2013 and, particularly, those developments not likely to be resolved in the normal way through solely developer/owner/funder action because of the presence of specific financial barriers. It is envisaged that the SRF should be particularly targeted to address the remaining unfinished developments with residents living in them and, in particular, any developments that local authorities identified, for the purposes of the Local Property Tax waiver, as in a seriously problematic condition. In December 2013, my Department wrote to local authorities seeking proposals for funding support under the SRF and the deadline for receipt of applications was 28 February 2014. All submissions were evaluated by my Department in accordance with the criteria circulated to the local authorities. On 2 May 2014, allocations from the Special Resolution Fund were announced and 86 developments were approved for funding. The following link contains a list of all developments approved for SRF funding:
http://www.environ.ie/en/DevelopmentHousing/Housing/News/MainBody,37940,en.htm
I can confirm that Sligo County Council submitted an application for funding from the SRF in respect of The Fairways, Ballygawley, which was not successful as there were no residents in occupancy and therefore did not meet the eligibility criteria of the scheme.
Each local authority has appointed an Unfinished Housing Development Co-ordinator; contact details can be found on the Housing Agency’s website at the following link:
http://www.housing.ie/Our-Services/Unfinished-Housing-Developments/Local-Authority-Contacts.
