Brian Stanley (Laois-Offaly, Sinn Fein)
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Question 543: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will furnish complete details of all local authority land bank loans that have been paid by him to date for counties Mayo, Kerry and Sligo; and the criteria used to assess local authority applications for the scheme. [41388/11]

Jan O'Sullivan (Limerick City, Labour)
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The following loans have been redeemed and recouped for sites in Kerry and Sligo under the Land Aggregation Scheme:

No application for inclusion of any site into the Scheme has been received from any local authority in Mayo. Housing authorities may, subject to approval from my Department, transfer residential lands on which there are outstanding loans from the Housing Finance Agency to Housing and Sustainable Communities Ltd. when the loans fall due for redemption and on the basis that there are no short to medium term plans for the development of the land. Subject to available funding my Department will recoup the cost of a land loan to the authority and transfer ownership to the Agency. These lands will continue to be available for social housing if housing projects are advanced by authorities under the Social Housing Investment Programme.