Barry Cowen (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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197. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide, by local authority, the amount of funding provided to each local authority to refurbish social housing voids in 2015, as well as figures detailing the number of voids that have been refurbished to date in 2015. [32483/15]

Alan Kelly (Tipperary North, Labour)
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I announced funding totalling €20.184 million in May 2015 to support all local authorities to deliver an initial 2015 target of returning 1,104 vacant social housing units back to productive use. Details of those allocations are set out in table following, in respect of which claims for over 500 units have been made to date to my Department. Additional units will have been completed but not claimed as yet.

A further target of 1,140 additional vacant units to be remediated has also been notified to local authorities.This additional tranche of targets will facilitate local authorities to make further significant progress in tackling their backlog of vacant units and allow them to maximise the use of their social housing units for those on the waiting lists.