Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire (Cork South-Central, Sinn Fein)
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318. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for a breakdown of the total amount of local authority home loan applications, by local authority; and the number of successful applications, in tabular form. [23426/26]

James Browne (Wexford, Fianna Fail)
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Applications for a Local Authority Home Loan are made through individual local authorities and 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 approach in the best interests of both borrowers and local authorities.

My Department 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).

Information on drawdowns, approvals, average drawdowns, and average approvals for Local Authority Home Loans [and its predecessor] are available on my Department’s website at the following link:

www.gov.ie/en/collection/42d2f-local-authority-loan-activity/#local-authority-loans-approvedpaid

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire (Cork South-Central, Sinn Fein)
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319. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for a breakdown of the total amounts of units retrofitted, by local authority area, for each of the past five years. [23427/26]

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire (Cork South-Central, Sinn Fein)
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320. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for a breakdown of the total spend on retrofitting of housing units, by local authority, in tabular form. [23428/26]

James Browne (Wexford, Fianna Fail)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 319 and 320 together.

More than 11,000 social homes have been retrofitted under the current Energy Efficiency Retrofit Programme (EERP) since 2021, with a target of 36,500 local authority owned social homes to be retrofit to a post works BER of 125KWh/m²/yr out to 2030.

Some €140 million is available under the programme this year, this is an increase of €50 million on 2025, and will support the retrofit of approximately 3,500 homes.

Local authorities were advised of their respective 2026 allocations earlier this month, with work under the 2026 programme is already underway.

Data on social housing retrofits per local authority from 2013 to 2025 are available via the links below:

www.gov.ie/en/publication/668c1-energy-efficiency-retrofitting-programme-expenditure-output/

www.gov.ie/en/publication/b86b3-midlands-energy-retrofit-programme-expenditure-and-units/