Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 14 April 2016
774. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the regulations, criteria and price thresholds regarding the acquisition of houses by local authorities. [6671/16]
View answerMy Department provides capital funding to local authorities for the acquisition of houses and apartments for social housing use. The parameters applying to local authorities in respect of exchequer funded social housing acquisitions was set out in Circular Housing 24/2015, which is available at the following link: http://www.environ.ie/housing/social-housing/social-housing-strategy/circular-housing-242015-social-housing-capital.
The cost thresholds for such acquisitions were notified to each individual local authority under separate cover for commercial confidentiality purposes.
