Barry Cowen (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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381. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide in tabular form a county breakdown of the number of properties identified by the National Asset Management Agency as being suitable for social housing; the number of properties accepted by local authorities for transfer; the number of properties transferred to date; the amount of money spent by his Department on NAMA properties for social housing use; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41881/13]

Maureen O'Sullivan (Dublin Central, Independent)
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393. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if any work has been done by his Department, by the National Asset Management Agency, by Dublin City Council, or by all three, working jointly, to identify NAMA owned/controlled properties in Dublin 1 and Dublin 7 that have particular potential for such community and social uses as adult education, community arts, resources for persons with disabilities, resources for community development, sports, family support and so on; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42000/13]

Jan O'Sullivan (Limerick City, Labour)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 381 and 393 together.

My Department, the Housing Agency and NAMA continue to work together with housing authorities and approved housing bodies towards identifying suitable NAMA housing units and bringing them into social housing use. It continues to be my Department's objective to maximise the delivery of social housing using all of the resources available. My priority is the provision of social housing units and that is where the focus remains in this process. A breakdown by county of the units identified, deemed suitable and completed or contracted is shown in the table below. Of the 4,351 units identified by NAMA currently 1,900 have been deemed suitable and of these 443 have completed or been contracted.

Currently my Department is making recoupments under the Social Housing Leasing Initiative on 93 NAMA-related housing units in Dun Laoghaire, Dublin City, Kildare and Louth. The combined annual cost of lease payments in respect of these units is just over €897,000. In addition my Department has provided capital funding of some €22m in the form of Capital Assistance, Social Housing Investment and Capital Advances to help secure 221 units of those either completed or contracted.