Barry Cowen (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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521. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of vacant social housing units returned to productive use, and the funding provided, by local authority, in 2014 and in 2015. [4141/16]

Alan Kelly (Tipperary North, Labour)
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My Department introduced a new target-driven and cost effective Voids Retrofitting Programme in 2014 and 2,300 voids units were returned to productive use in that first year, with a further 2,700 units in 2015. The key objective of this programme is to return targeted vacant stock to a lettable, energy efficient condition at a reasonable cost. This funding programme is additional to the routine turnaround of vacant social housing stock carried out by local authorities under their ongoing maintenance programmes from their own resources. The funding provided by my Department since the programme commenced in 2014 and the number of units returned to use, broken down by local authority, are set out in the following table.