Terence Flanagan (Dublin North East, Independent)
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146. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the steps being taken to encourage local authorities to acquire National Asset Management Agency houses to help with addressing the shortage in available social housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3006/14]

Jan O'Sullivan (Limerick City, Labour)
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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. To that end, I have contacted each housing authority to advise them of the establishment of a special purpose vehicle by NAMA and of the priority that I have placed on securing as many NAMA sourced units as possible for the purposes of social housing.

By the end of December 2013, of the 4,374 units identified by NAMA as being potentially suitable, some 2,055 units have been confirmed by local authorities as being suitable for social housing.

Completed housing unit transfers stand at 492, with a further 104 units that have been contracted and where completion work is on-going. This brings the overall total delivery of social housing from NAMA sourced units to 596 units (completed or contracted) since the process began.

Further information in relation to the delivery of NAMA sourced units, including a full breakdown by county of units delivered by quarter, is available at the Housing Agency’s website: .