Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein)
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596. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of unsold affordable homes being used for social housing by local authority; the annual cost of servicing the loans on these properties by each local authority; the cost to date of servicing these loans by local authority; the estimated cost to the Exchequer of these properties; and his plans to assist local authorities meet these debt obligations in tabular form. [30950/21]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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As of Q4 2020, a total of 2,039 unsold affordable units (USAs) have been identified across 19 local authorities and are available for social housing tenants.

In September 2020, I convened a working group to examine the issues around these units in detail. This working group comprises members of the Local Government Management Agency, Housing Finance Agency, Housing Agency, Approved Housing Bodies through the Irish Council of Social Housing and my Department.

My Department is currently consulting with all local authorities and the Housing Finance Agency to gather all USA financial data. Once completed, the next meeting of the working group will consider the options available for resolving this legacy issue.

Details of the number of USA units by local authority area is set out at Table 1 below. The 2020 annual cost of servicing these units and the total cost to end 2020 is set out at Table 2 below.

Table 1: No. of unsold affordable units to end of 2020

Table 2 - SHCEP payments by LA 2009-2020.