Brian Stanley (Laois-Offaly, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Minister of State for her reply. She mentioned the progress. A report was done in June 2011 and I admit the Government inherited a difficult situation with regard to unfinished estates dotted throughout the country, including my county of Laois which has 70 unfinished estates. I have also studied the progress report published in July 2012. I am anxious to find out where we are today with regard to these matters. The 2011 report found 23,250 complete but vacant houses and another 9,976 almost complete but vacant houses. This is a total of more than 33,000 houses in 1,655 developments with works outstanding in categories 2, 3 and 4. At the time, the NAMA share was listed in the report as 3,200 homes possibly available for social housing use.

Two years on, however, how many of those 3,200 houses have been brought into use?

The report mentioned site resolution plans for the 1,650 estates, but how many of those are in place for category three and category four estates? Some 636 estates were subject to legal enforcement last June, 44 of which were in County Laois. There were three in Offaly and seven in Kildare.

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