Tommy Broughan (Dublin North East, Independent)
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376. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the total number of housing units that are currently unoccupied but which will be brought back into usage this year by local authorities with the support of funding from his Department; and if he will provide a breakdown of the local authorities that are receiving funding to bring unoccupied units back into use. [24190/14]

Jan O'Sullivan (Limerick City, Labour)
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In the context of submissions received from local authorities in respect of my Department’s capital investment programme for returning vacant local authority houses to productive use, authorities have indicated that there currently are some 3,016 vacant properties across all city and county councils. In April 2014 I allocated €15 million for works to refurbish a total of 952 of these vacant properties, a detailed breakdown of the funding and number of units is set out in the table.

Under the recently announced capital supports for the construction sector, my Department will provide a further €20 million for the refurbishment of vacant units in order that these can be made available as quickly as possible to families on the housing waiting lists.