Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 26 June 2014

Public Accounts Committee

2012 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 4 - Vote Accounting
Chapter 10 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Chapter 11 - Costs of Land Remediation
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government

12:40 pm

Mr. John McCarthy:

Yes. We have a very good and constructive relationship with NAMA. To give a sense of how much progress has been made, up to the end of quarter one this year, more than 4,600 units had been identified by NAMA. A total of 1,900 were confirmed to be suitable by local authorities. As things stand at the end of April, more than 750 of those have been activated and there are active negotiations and appraisals ongoing on a further 1,000 units. I will ask my colleague Mr. Layde, who has been leading for us on the matter, to add to what I say. One of the difficulties that has arisen with the NAMA units is that some of them have either been in the wrong place in terms of social housing demand or in the wrong place in terms of sustainable communities.