Patricia Ryan (Kildare South, Sinn Fein)
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1257. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a revenue stream will be provided for Kildare County Council to bid for homes nearing completion in view of the fact that private buyers may have difficulty obtaining a mortgage due to Covid-19; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9573/20]

Eoghan Murphy (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael)
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Under Rebuilding Ireland, all local authorities including Kildare County Council, have funding available to them to deliver new social homes through a variety of delivery programmes.  This has included agreements with developers to complete new homes and deliver them to the local authority on a ‘turnkey’ basis.  That option has been utilised by many local authorities including Kildare County Council and it continues to be available to them.

Approved Housing Bodies with the approval of local authorities, also utilise these approaches for the delivery of new housing for those on the waiting lists.