Brendan Smith (Cavan-Monaghan, Fianna Fail)
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800. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the level of funding he approved for Cavan County Council for 2016 to enable it to complete unfinished housing estates in the county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7034/16]

Brendan Smith (Cavan-Monaghan, Fianna Fail)
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801. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the level of funding he approved for Monaghan County Council for 2016 to enable it to complete unfinished housing estates in the county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7035/16]

Alan Kelly (Tipperary, Labour)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 800 and 801 together.800 and 801 together.

Since 2010, an annual national housing survey of unfinished housing developments has been conducted during the summer months to monitor progress. In that period, the number of unfinished housing developments has decreased by approximately three-quarters, from nearly 3,000in 2010 to 668 in 2015.

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: .

To assist in addressing the legacy of unfinished housing developments, Budget 2014 contained a special provision, in the form of a targeted €10m Special Resolution Fund (SRF). The SRF was designed to encourage the resolution of the remaining tranche of unfinished developments identified in the National Housing Development Survey 2013 and, particularly, those developments not likely to be resolved in the normal way through solely developer/owner/funder action because of the presence of specific financial barriers. The SRF was particularly targeted to address the remaining unfinished developments with residents living in them and, in particular, any developments that local authorities identified, for the purposes of the Local Property Tax exemption, as in a seriously problematic condition.

The table below sets out the SRF allocations to Cavan and Monaghan County Councils:

The 2015 National Housing Development Survey and the Annual Progress Report illustrate that good progress is continuing to be made in resolving unfinished developments and that the reactivation of sites is now evident throughout the country. I have no plans, at this time, to introduce additional funding for the completion of the remaining Unfinished Housing Developments.