Tom Fleming (Kerry South, Independent)
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To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of council tenants that were in arrears in each local authority in 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 and to date in 2012; the total number that were in arrears for each year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47700/12]

Tom Fleming (Kerry South, Independent)
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To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of council tenants that were in arrears in each local authority in 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 and to date in 2012; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47701/12]

Jan O'Sullivan (Limerick City, Labour)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 676 and 677 together.

My Department collates and publishes a wide range of housing and planning statistics that inform the preparation and evaluation of policy and those data are available on my Department’s website .

Since 2008, the Department has collected data on rent arrears, calculated by the total monetary amounts owing to local authorities. Data are not collected on the breakdown of this figure by households.

Tom Fleming (Kerry South, Independent)
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To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of households that acquired council housing loans that were in arrears in each local authority in 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 and to date in 2012; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47702/12]

Tom Fleming (Kerry South, Independent)
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To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of households with council housing loans that were in arrears in each local authority in 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 and to date in 2012; the total number that were in arrears for each year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47713/12]

Jan O'Sullivan (Limerick City, Labour)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 678 and 690 together.

My Department collates and publishes a wide range of housing and planning statistics that inform the preparation and evaluation of policy and those data are available on my Department’s website www.environ.ie .

Since 2010, data are collected from local authorities on the number of loans in arrears broken down by the length of time in arrears. The data to mid-2012 indicate that 6,280 such loans are in arrears of more than 90 days , which represents 28% of the total number of loans. The data are provided in a tabular format below.

County Councils Number of loans in arrears over 90 days