Written answers
Thursday, 30 July 2020
Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
Home Loan Scheme
Réada Cronin (Kildare North, Sinn Fein)
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441. To ask 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]
Paul Donnelly (Dublin West, Sinn Fein)
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448. To ask 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]
John Brady (Wicklow, Sinn Fein)
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457. To ask 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]
Martin Browne (Tipperary, Sinn Fein)
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465. To ask 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]
Pauline Tully (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein)
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487. To ask 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]
Martin Kenny (Sligo-Leitrim, Sinn Fein)
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494. To ask 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]
Pearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein)
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504. To ask 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]
Johnny Guirke (Meath West, Sinn Fein)
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522. To ask 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]
Martin Kenny (Sligo-Leitrim, Sinn Fein)
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533. To ask 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]
Pa Daly (Kerry, Sinn Fein)
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540. To ask 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]
Violet-Anne Wynne (Clare, Sinn Fein)
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547. To ask 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]
Patricia Ryan (Kildare South, Sinn Fein)
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556. To ask 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]
Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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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 |
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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:
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.
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