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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

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MEETING OF SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

Monday, December 12, 2011

QUESTION NO. 6

QUESTION: Councillor J. Lahart

To ask the Manager to enumerate the number of repossessions that have taken place in the county in 2009/2010 and to date this year?

REPLY:

To date this year four houses have been repossessed because of  serious loan arrears which had accrued over very long periods of time and which the borrowers were incapable of paying.   There was one such  repossession in 2010 and there were no reposessions in 2009. In each case the borrowers had moved away from the house and had consented to the repossession. 

The Council engaged with the borrowers to assist them but to no avail.

These houses have now been incorporated into the council's social housing stock.

Twelve social homes have been repossessed in the same period because of significant differential rent arrears with five being reposessed in 2010 and three in 2009.