Terence Flanagan (Dublin North East, Fine Gael)
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Question 536: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will provide an outline in tabular form (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31477/10]

Michael Finneran (Roscommon-South Leitrim, Fianna Fail)
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A total of 66 houses have been repossessed by local authorities in the five year period 2005-2009. This includes 7 voluntary repossessions. While repossession by a local authority is a last resort, where it does occur it is related to the non-payment of a local authority mortgage, rather than to house type or category of ownership (e.g. affordable home, shared ownership, tenant purchase etc.). The table below therefore sets out the total repossessions carried out in relation to houses purchased with a local authority mortgage.

A majority of affordable homes have been purchased using loan finance obtained from private lenders. My Department does not compile information in relation to the numbers of these purchasers now in arrears or subject to repossession proceedings.