Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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1386. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount issued by the Housing Finance Agency to approved housing bodies per annum from 2011 to date; the number of units constructed under such finance; the number of units leased; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13003/19]

Eoghan Murphy (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael)
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My Department requested the Housing Finance Agency to provide figures for the amount of funding issued by the Agency to approved housing bodies per annum from 2011 to date; and the number of units constructed under such finance. The information concerned is set out in the following table.

AHBs may also utilise the Capital Advance leasing Facility (CALF) in conjunction with a loan from the HFA. Dwellings constructed by AHBs using HFA finance are owned by AHBs and it is a condition of the funding that they are made available to local authorities for social housing using Payment and Availability Agreements (P&As).

With regard to leasing, in addition to the units which are supported through HFA funding outlined above, under the Social Housing Current Expenditure Programme (SHCEP), my Department supports AHBs to lease dwellings and make them available for social housing. These dwellings are secured under long-term leases between AHBs and private owners. They are then made available to local authorities for social housing using Payment and Availability Agreements (P&As), the cost of which is recouped to local authorities by my Department.

Output under AHB leasing since 2014 is set out in the following table.