Dessie Ellis (Dublin North West, Sinn Fein)
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646. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide an update on the delivery of National Asset Management Agency housing units in north Kildare detailing where houses and apartments are, and their current status. [26383/15]

Dessie Ellis (Dublin North West, Sinn Fein)
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647. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide an update on the delivery of National Asset Management Agency units for social housing; the number that have been delivered or are in the process of coming on stream; the location; and if they are to be leased or purchased by local authorities. [26384/15]

Alan Kelly (Tipperary North, Labour)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 646 and 647 together.

My Department continues to work closely with NAMA, the Housing Agency, local authorities and approved housing bodies in relation to the delivery of social housing from the NAMA portfolio. Information in relation to the delivery of NAMA sourced units, including a full breakdown by county, of units delivered on quarterly basis, is available on the Housing Agency’s website: . Information available for Kildare is in respect of the whole of Kildare County Council area and includes a breakdown by houses and apartments of units delivered through NAMA to date. To date 93 units have been delivered in Kildare. My Department does not keep statistics on North Kildare separately.

Since the process began in December 2011 up to end of March 2015, a total of 1,198 residential properties have been delivered for social housing use, comprising of 950 completed properties, with a further 248 that have been contracted and where completion work is on-going. A further 663 properties are active transactions whereby terms are agreed, active negotiation is on-going with all parties concerned, or where a detailed appraisal (i.e. determining the most likely delivery mechanism) is being carried out.

Units delivered through this process comprise of units purchased by Approved Housing Bodies (AHBs) and local authorities through the various funding mechanisms available from my Department, and units leased directly by AHBs and local authorities, including from NAMA’s Special Purpose Vehicle. Of the 950 units completed by end March 2015 111 were leased by AHBs and 23 were leased by local authorities directly from property owners in NAMA. 396 were purchased by AHBs with 93 purchased by local authorities, and the remaining 327 were purchased by the NAMA SPV for onward lease to AHB’s and local authorities. The table breaks this down by local authority.