Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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178. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the extent to which his Department is aware of new applicants applying for local authority housing, in some cases arising from repossessions or notice to quit from landlords; the extent to which this is being monitored by the various local authorities with a view to taking steps to address the issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16095/15]

Alan Kelly (Tipperary North, Labour)
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The assessment of applications for social housing support is the responsibility of the relevant local authority in accordance with the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2 009 and associated regulations. The prescribed application form for such support requires applicants to provide certain information on their current and previous accommodation, including whether they received a notice to quit or an eviction notice in respect of their current accommodation and the reasons for leaving previous accommodation. My Department does not hold day-to-day information on the number of applications made to each local authority nor the contents thereof. Statutory Summaries of Social Housing Assessments are carried out at regular intervals and they provide information on the number and make up of households on local authority housing waiting lists. The most recent summary, carried out as at 7 May 2013, provided details on the number of households categorised as having a housing need due to an unsustainable mortgage; details of the 2013 Housing Needs Assessment are available on my Department’s website at the following link:

My Department will consider the specific recording of households which are the subject of repossession or eviction when preparing the parameters of the next summary which is due to be carried out in 2016 and on an annual basis thereafter.