My Department collates and publishes a wide range of housing statistics, including data on local authority housing completions and acquisitions for individual years, broken down by county. Details are available at the following link: www.environ.ie/en/Publications/StatisticsandRegularPublications/HousingStatistics/.
Statistics relating to the number of houses allocated to tenants and the number of transfers of tenants that took place within each local authority area are not available in my Department and are a matter for each individual housing authority.
Other statistics on local authority housing stock, including vacant social housing units, are published by the Local Government Management Agency. The most recent of these are the Service Indicators in local authorities for 2013,
which are available at the following link: www.lgma.ie/en/service-indicators-local-authorities-2013.
In relation to the years 2014 and 2015, my Department has been funding programmes under which 2,333 vacant social houses were returned to productive use in 2014, while funding allocations to local authorities for 2015 will support this work in respect of a further 1,119 houses this year. This programme is separate from renovation works that local authorities may undertake from their own resources.
