Seán Ó Fearghaíl (Kildare South, Fianna Fail)
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To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of housing units for each housing authority currently tenanted under the residential accommodation scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48199/12]

Seán Ó Fearghaíl (Kildare South, Fianna Fail)
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To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide details, on a county basis, of the number of houses currently tenanted under the long term leasing arrangement; the management agency responsible for these units; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48200/12]

Jan O'Sullivan (Limerick City, Labour)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 711 and 712 together.

Data in relation to leasing and RAS units are generally provided as numbers of operational units under leasing or households transferred under RAS. The number of these units tenanted at any particular time varies as leases end, tenants move on to other properties or new tenancies are allocated. Recoupment in relation to both leasing and RAS is based on the securing of the property and making it available to social housing tenants. Where vacancies arise, local authorities, or approved housing bodies, have 3 months to re-let the unit. Where a new tenant is not in place within that 3 month period, recoupment under both schemes ceases until such time as a tenant is in situ. To the end of September 2012, local authorities had transferred a total of 41,623 households to the Rental Accommodation Scheme from Rent Supplement since the former commenced in late 2005. To the end of October 2012, 3,458 housing units have been made available for use as social housing under the Social Housing Leasing Initiative.

Seán Ó Fearghaíl (Kildare South, Fianna Fail)
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To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the total number of social housing units currently owned by voluntary housing associations; the number of these units that are specialised, that is sheltered, OPDs, specially adapted and so on; the number that are standard family housing on a county basis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48201/12]

Jan O'Sullivan (Limerick City, Labour)
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My Department’s records show that a total of 25,900 units of accommodation have been provided by the approved Voluntary and Co-operative Housing Bodies . Some 10,501 of these were provided under the Capital Loan and Subsidy Scheme (CLSS) and comprise largely of standard housing for low-income families . 15,399 units of accommodation were funded under my Department’s Capital Assistance Scheme (CAS) which provides funding of up to 100% of the cost of accommodation for persons with a disability, older persons, homeless etc . Given that individual housing bodies may cater for a range of special housing needs and that the accommodation provided by those bodies may be multi-purpose, it is not possible definitively to state the number of units which may be allocated to meet specialised housing need.

Information in relation to the numbers of CLSS and CAS units in each local authority area is set out in the following table: