John Brady (Wicklow, Sinn Fein)
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659. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if applications are still being accepted under the mortgage allowance scheme; if so, the eligibility criteria; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39816/21]

John Brady (Wicklow, Sinn Fein)
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660. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the breakdown of applications received and granted by county council under the mortgage allowance scheme in each of the years 2016 to 2020 and to date in 2021, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39817/21]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 659 and 660 together.

The Mortgage Allowance scheme provides for an allowance of up to €11,450 payable over a 5 year period, to tenants or tenant purchasers of local authority housing, to assist them to purchase or have a private house built with a mortgage.  New applications are still being accepted by local authorities under the scheme, and further details are available on my Department's website at the following link:  

www.gov.ie/en/service/b66ea-mortgage-allowance-scheme/

Details of the applications received and granted by local authority under the scheme are available on my Department's website at the following link:  

www.gov.ie/en/collection/fd048-affordable-housing-and-part-v-statistics/