Mairead Farrell (Galway West, Sinn Fein)
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305. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated number of mortgage arrears by county in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34608/20]

Paschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael)
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I have been informed by the Central Bank of Ireland that it while it produces mortgage arrears statistics on a quarterly basis, this information is not collated on a county by county basis. The latest quarterly statistics, which were for the second quarter of 2020, were published on 28 September 2020 and are available at .

However, the Deputy may wish to note that the Central Bank of Ireland’s Household Credit Market Report 2018 included a county-by-county breakdown of mortgage arrears in December 2017, though the data related to three banks only and did not cover the full population of banks and non-bank entities from the official mortgage arrears statistics. The report can be found at , and the particular mortgage arrears data is set out in Figure 19 (page 14) of the report.