Denise Mitchell (Dublin Bay North, Sinn Fein)
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118. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of applications for the Rebuilding Ireland scheme to date in 2020; the number of applicants who have been successful; and the number of those who have been refused. [26023/20]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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The Housing Agency provides a central support service which assesses applications for the Rebuilding Ireland Home Loan on behalf of local authorities and makes recommendations to the authorities to approve or refuse applications. Each local authority must have in place a credit committee and it is a matter for the committee to make the decision on applications for loans, in accordance with the regulations, having regard to the recommendations made by the Housing Agency.

I have asked the Agency to compile figures on the numbers of applications that it has assessed and recommended for approval/decline in 2020. The most recent figures, as at the end of August 2020, indicate that of the 937 applications assessed by it since January, the Agency had recommended 422 applications for approval and 515 for decline.

Loan applicants who are dissatisfied with a loan application decision of a local authority Credit Committee may appeal that decision to the local authority. Details of the appeals process can be obtained from the relevant local authority.