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Tuesday, 31 March 2015

Department of Environment, Community and Local Government

Housing Data

Photo of Denis NaughtenDenis Naughten (Roscommon-South Leitrim, Independent)
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624. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide a list of the housing developments, by county, in each of the four categories under the national housing development survey 2011; the number of developments in each category which remain to be completed and taken in charge; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12832/15]

Photo of Paudie CoffeyPaudie Coffey (Waterford, Fine Gael)
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Since 2010, an annual national housing survey of unfinished housing developments has been conducted during the summer months to monitor progress. The detailed findings of the annual surveys, annual progress reports and other useful publications and information in relation to Unfinished Housing Developments are available on the Housing Agency’s website at:.

As part of the Government’s Public Safety Initiative (PSI) for Unfinished Housing Developments and subsequent to the 2011 National Housing Development Survey, local authorities were requested to categorise the surveyed unfinished developments in order to identify developments with public safety type risks and where those risks were not being effectively managed or addressed by the developer or owner of the site. Sites categorised as same were eligible for PSI funding from my Department.

Given the once-off nature of the Public Safety Initiative, the categorisation of developments was also one-off and not repeated in subsequent annual surveys. Therefore, it is not possible to directly compare the categories of unfinished housing developments from 2011 with the current list of unfinished housing developments.

The 2014 survey findings show the number of unfinished housing developments has decreased by approximately, two-thirds; from nearly 3,000in 2010 to 992 in 2014. A breakdown by county for 2014 is provided in Table 2 of Resolving Unfinished Housing Developments Annual Progress Report on Actions to Address Unfinished Housing Developmentsavailable on the Housing Agency’s website at :

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The management and administration of issues relating to unfinished housing developments is a matter for individual local authorities.  Each local authority has appointed an Unfinished Housing Development co-ordinator; contact details can be found on the Housing Agency’s website at: .

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