Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein)
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183. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of long-term leases approved to date in 2021 by local authority area including an average cost per unit for each local authority area; the number of leased properties in each local authority area that have a single owner; and the number of leased properties that are in multi-unit developments owned by a single individual or corporate entity or portfolios of properties owned by a single owner or corporate entity in tabular form. [56659/21]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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To date in 2021, 130 leasing projects have been approved by my Department for delivery under the Long Term Leasing and Enhanced Leasing Schemes over the period 2021 to 2023. A breakdown of these approvals by local authority, detailing the term of the agreement and number of units is set out in Table 1 attached.

The average cost of all long term leases approved in 2021 is €16,500. My Department does not release specific cost information at a project level as these transactions are commercially sensitive and contain proprietary information that may impact on the competitiveness of the local authority sector.

Applications under the leasing programme are made to the relevant local authority who assess each application. Where the application is for more than 4 properties or when leasing from an AHB, the local authority must apply to my Department for approval before entering into any agreement. The entities from whom the houses are leased is a matter for the relevant local authority and details of the owner involved in each social housing leasing project are not held by my Department.

Details on social housing delivery for each local authority, across a range of delivery mechanisms, are included in social housing statistics published by my Department. This data is available to the end of Quarter 2 2021 and is available on the statistics page of my Department’s website, at the following link: