Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance)
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731. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of National Asset Management Agency properties, broken down by local authority area, that have been identified by the agency as suitable homes for inclusion in the social housing list; the number, that have been offered to each of the local authorities; that have been transferred to the local authorities; and the scheme under which have they been transferred, for example rental accommodation scheme, housing assistance payment, social housing leasing initiative, etc. [34640/15]

Alan Kelly (Tipperary North, Labour)
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Since December 2011, my Department and the Housing Agency have been engaged with NAMA identifying properties that might potentially be suitable for social housing purposes. Since the process began, up to end of June 2015, a total of 1,386 NAMA residential properties have been delivered for social housing use, comprising of 1,083 completed properties, with a further 303 that have been contracted and where completion work is on-going. A further 624 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.

In total, NAMA identified 6,542 residential properties under this initiative as being potentially available for social housing. Of this figure, 2,501 properties have a confirmed demand and a re available for social housing, 1,038 of which had been delivered by end June 2015, with the balance of some 1,400 being progressed at various stages. 4,041 are either no longer available or are considered unsuitable by local authorities for a number of reasons including sustainable communities issues and no confirmed demand for social housing in the areas concerned.

The table below sets out, by local authority, the number of units that have been delivered/contracted to date, the number of units for which demand has been confirmed and the total number of units identified by NAMA as being potentially available for social housing.

Information in relation to delivery is available and regularly updated at .

Properties that are deemed suitable may be leased or purchased by local authorities or approved housing bodies under a number of funding mechanisms including the local authority capital programme, the social housing current expenditure programme (SHCEP) or the capital assistance scheme. Almost 80% of delivery from NAMA is funded by way of acquisition or lease under the SHCEP, with the remainder primarily delivered through acquisitions under the capital funded programmes of local authorities and approved housing bodies.