Ivana Bacik (Dublin Bay South, Labour)
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593. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total new homes recorded under Housing for All progress updates; the number which have gone to market; and the number which are now inhabited. [47276/23]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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Data on new residential dwellings completed are captured and published quarterly by the Central Statistics Office. The data are available at data.cso.ie/table/NDQ01.

The data show 20,546, 29,751 and 22,443 new homes were completed in 2021, 2022 and to end-September 2023 respectively.

Data on the share of these homes which have gone to market, or which are now inhabited, are not available.

Ivana Bacik (Dublin Bay South, Labour)
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594. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of applicants for a local authority home loan in 2023; the number of approvals for a local authority home loan in 2023; and the total amount drawn down in local authority home loans in 2023 in each local authority, in tabular form. [47278/23]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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The Local Authority Home Loan (LAHL) is a Government-backed mortgage for creditworthy applicants who cannot get sufficient funding from commercial banks to purchase or build a home. It has been available nationwide from local authorities since 4 January 2022 for first-time buyers and fresh start applicants. The loan can be used both for new and second-hand properties, or to self-build.

The Housing Agency provides a central support service that assesses applications for the Local Authority Home Loan on behalf of local authorities and makes recommendations to the authorities to approve or refuse applications.

The final decision on loan approval is a matter for the relevant local authority and its Credit Committee on a case-by-case basis. Decisions on all housing loan applications must be made in accordance with the Regulations establishing the scheme and the credit policy that underpins the scheme, in order to ensure prudence and consistency in approaches in the best interests of both borrowers and the lending local authorities.

The most recent figures provided by the Agency on the number of valid Local Authority Home loan applications that it has assessed for each local authority, from 1 January 2023 up to the end of September 2023 are set out in the below table: