Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 2 October 2025

Select Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage

Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Further Revised)

2:00 am

Photo of Eoin Ó BroinEoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein)

Obviously, there is no additional money for response maintenance and casual relets of voids. What I notice in the NOAC report that was published last week or early this week is that the 22-week average turnaround period, which is the real problem as opposed to the number of units, has now stretched out to 30-something weeks, which means we are going backwards. I appreciate some of this is the local authorities and their management but some of it is also the financing of it. In terms of the Department's efforts to get that average turnaround time down, some extra funding would be helpful to certain local authorities but are there other actions the Minister and Minister of State are going to take as part of the REV expenditure into next year to get that timeline down? It was too long at 22 weeks. Am I right that the current average has gone up to 30-something weeks?

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