Written answers

Tuesday, 27 July 2021

Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government

Housing Schemes

Photo of Johnny MythenJohnny Mythen (Wexford, Sinn Fein)
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725. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of applicants for Rebuilding Ireland home loans in County Wexford in 2020; the number that have been successful; the number that have been refused; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40623/21]

Photo of Darragh O'BrienDarragh 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.

The total figures for 2020 from the Agency on the numbers of applications that it has assessed and recommended for approval for Wexford County Council in 2020, are as follows:

Local Authority Applications Assessed Recommended to Approve Recommended to Decline Approval Rate
Wexford County Council 78 30 48 38%

The next stages in the process are approval and drawdown from the local authority.  

My Department regularly publishes information on the number and value of (i) local authority loan approvals and (ii) local authority loan drawdowns. Local authority approval means that an official letter of offer has been sent to a borrower (and therefore relates to a specific property and loan amount).

Figures for 2019 and 2020 are available at the following link: www.gov.ie/en/collection/42d2f-local-authority-loan-activity/#local-authority-loans-approvedpaid

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