Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 26 June 2014
Public Accounts Committee
2012 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 4 - Vote Accounting
Chapter 10 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Chapter 11 - Costs of Land Remediation
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government
10:40 am
Mr. John McCarthy:
Yes. In the local authority sector there are approximately 130,000 social housing units in the local authority stock. Allowing for between 3,000 and 4,000 being out of use at any one point in time, one is then talking about 125,000 or 126,000 active units. In addition, one is probably talking about 18,000 or 19,000 units among the voluntary housing bodies.
Putting the two of them together, one is talking about roughly 145,000 active units, if I can put it that way.