Written answers
Thursday, 16 February 2023
Department of Finance
Departmental Data
Cathal Crowe (Clare, Fianna Fail)
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207. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of first-time buyer help-to-buy scheme applicants and approved recipients since its inception by county; and the total number of approved recipients in 2020, 2021 and 2022, by county, in tabular form. [8041/23]
Michael McGrath (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)
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The Help to Buy (HTB) incentive is a scheme to assist first-time purchasers (FTP) with the deposit they need to buy or build a new house or apartment. The incentive provides a refund of Income Tax and Deposit Interest Retention Tax (DIRT) paid in Ireland over the previous four years, subject to limits outlined in the legislation.
I am advised by Revenue that applications for Help to Buy may be made on a provisional basis as first-time buyers seek to clarify their entitlements in advance of commencing the purchase of a property. An application will only progress to the “claim” stage if and when the applicant decides to purchase a property that is eligible for the scheme. It is only at claim stage that the property address details become available, and therefore a county breakdown of applications, encompassing those that do not progress to claim stage, is not available.
Revenue have advised that the table below provides a county breakdown of the number of approved claims for the years 2017 – 2022, based on the date of the commencement of the claim stage:
- | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Carlow | 35 | 36 | 60 | 60 | 105 | 61 |
Cavan | 34 | 40 | 60 | 69 | 87 | 69 |
Clare | 60 | 74 | 126 | 104 | 166 | 94 |
Cork | 509 | 563 | 804 | 804 | 1,104 | 958 |
Donegal | 43 | 49 | 88 | 114 | 148 | 175 |
Dublin | 1,974 | 1,574 | 1,679 | 1,145 | 1,110 | 1,057 |
Galway | 201 | 218 | 290 | 331 | 417 | 326 |
Kerry | 45 | 41 | 81 | 98 | 104 | 115 |
Kildare | 514 | 473 | 675 | 772 | 990 | 1,029 |
Kilkenny | 36 | 48 | 85 | 142 | 122 | 118 |
Laois | 63 | 88 | 85 | 142 | 222 | 144 |
Leitrim | 12 | 16 | <10* | 19 | 29 | 18 |
Limerick | 162 | 151 | 210 | 213 | 256 | 176 |
Longford | 19 | 18 | 34 | 22 | 29 | 25 |
Louth | 130 | 185 | 218 | 189 | 342 | 312 |
Mayo | 64 | 78 | 144 | 131 | 160 | 166 |
Meath | 599 | 585 | 845 | 746 | 867 | 633 |
Monaghan | 30 | 43 | 67 | 66 | 100 | 81 |
Offaly | 55 | 34 | 59 | 78 | 135 | 153 |
Roscommon | 32 | 31 | 63 | 61 | 80 | 62 |
Sligo | 26 | 39 | 54 | 37 | 74 | 62 |
Tipperary | 83 | 84 | 112 | 96 | 133 | 112 |
Waterford | 127 | 113 | 145 | 161 | 192 | 162 |
Westmeath | 60 | 70 | 80 | 94 | 95 | 101 |
Wexford | 64 | 98 | 191 | 168 | 296 | 285 |
Wicklow | 258 | 211 | 305 | 224 | 310 | 249 |
Total | 5235 | 4960 | 6560* | 6086 | 7673 | 6743 |
* Where there are fewer than ten cases in a county, the exact number is not provided due to Revenue's obligation to protect taxpayer confidentiality. The number of Leitrim-based claims is therefore excluded from the 2019 total.
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