Pearse Doherty (Donegal South West, Sinn Fein)
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187. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide a list of all the unoccupied local authority housing in the Stranorlar, County Donegal, electoral area, including the date as and from which each unit was last occupied; if he will provide the estimated costs and timescale involved in bringing each of these unoccupied properties up to an acceptable standard in order to make them habitable; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47570/14]

Alan Kelly (Tipperary North, Labour)
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Under Section 58 of the Housing Act 1966, Donegal County Council, as the housing authority for the Stranorlar electoral area, is responsible for the management and maintenance of the local authority housing stock in the area and my Department does not hold the specific information sought. Statistics on local authority housing stock, including units that may be empty, are published by the Local Government Management Agency ; the most recent data are in respect of 2012 and are available at the following link: .

My Department supports local authorities in their work on returning vacant and boarded up social housing units to use, for which €30 million nationally has been allocated in 2014, with a target of returning 1,960 such units to productive use in an energy efficient condition. Donegal County Council has been allocated almost €926,000 under this programme in 2014, targeting 167 vacant units throughout the County, including units in the Stranorlar electoral area, and I expect to see a full delivery of this target.