Eoghan Murphy (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I did not respond to the Deputy because his question was linked with another Deputy's question.

The Housing Agency has a role and a fund to engage with institutional lenders and those who have homes on their books to acquire them for social housing. That is happening currently. There are almost 1,000 homes currently as part of the mandate to get 1,600 homes into the stock of social housing through the acquisition fund the Housing Agency has. It then works with the local authority to get that house for that local authority which can then be tenanted either through the local authority or through a housing body.

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