Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein)
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47. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 1358 of 7 November 2017, if he will reconcile the data on voids contained therein and in the 2016 NOAC report; and if an assurance will be provided that there is no double counting of regular voids and long term voids in his annual social housing output figures for 2014 to 2017. [52165/17]

Eoghan Murphy (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael)
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The 2016 NOAC report published in November 2016 refers to Performance Indicators in Local Authorities 2015.  The figures in the report, indicating the percentage of local authority housing stock not tenanted at end 2015, are based on the number of vacant units at the end of 2015, regardless of the reason for non-occupation or the length of time the dwelling has been unoccupied. 

My Department's figure refers, however, to the number of units that were funded under the voids programme in a four year period.  While it is likely that some of the units vacant at 31 December 2015 may have been the subject of voids programme funding in 2016 or 2017, there is no direct relationship between the two figures. The voids programme is focused on addressing vacant housing stock in need of far greater levels of repair than normal re-letting works, to bring them up to a suitable letting condition.