Barry Cowen (Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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184. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the number of eviction orders under section 12, in addition to under sections 13 and 17, of the Housing Act 2014 that were issued to local authority housing tenants in 2015 and 2016 in each local authority, in tabular form; and the number of tenancy warning notices under sections 7 to 10, inclusive, that were issued in each local authority in 2015 and 2016. [33302/16]

Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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The following table sets out the information collected by my Department in relation to the matters in question. As the information is collected on an annual basis, data for 2016 will not be available until next year.

It should be noted that the powers of local authorities in this regard were enhanced with the commencement of Part 2 of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2014 on 13 April 2015. Part 2 strengthens the power of housing authorities to recover possession of their dwellings from households in serious breach of their tenancy agreements provided that certain procedures are followed.

Number of evictions from local authority dwellings in 2015 carried out on foot of warrants/applications for possessions