Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 5 March 2019
583. Deputy John Curran asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of vacant properties that have been refurbished and have returned to the housing stock in each Dublin local authority; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10438/19]
View answerUnder Section 58 of the Housing Act 1966, the management and maintenance of local authority housing stock, including the implementation of planned maintenance programmes and carrying out of responsive repairs and pre-letting repairs to vacant properties, is a matter for each individual local authority.
Local authority housing stock becomes vacant and is refurbished and re-let on a continuous basis by the local authorities and my Department does not have information on such re-lets. My Department does provide some exchequer funding to support local authorities in tackling vacant social housing through the voids programme, particularly homes that would likely remain vacant for a significant period of time because of the scale of the works required. The programme assists local authorities in actively targeting such vacant properties, to minimise their turnaround and re-let times and return them to use in an energy efficient condition.
Information on numbers of vacant properties that were brought back to productive use in the Dublin local authorities is available to my Department solely in relation to those that received Departmental funding under the voids programme. These details in respect of 2018 are as follows:
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SH Units Returned in 2018 under the voids programme |
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Dublin City |
495 |
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Fingal |
48 |
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South Dublin |
61 |
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Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown |
50 |
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Total |
654 |
