Róisín Shortall (Dublin North West, Social Democrats)
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286. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the funding allocated to each of the Dublin local authorities for each of the past three years for refurbishing voids, purchasing properties, building new units and for HAP in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52504/17]

Eoghan Murphy (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael)
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The information requested by the Deputy in relation to funding provided to each of the Dublin local authorities for refurbishing voids, purchase of properties for social housing purposes and the construction of local authority social housing is provided in the following tables. The data includes amounts self-funded by the Dublin authorities from surplus Local Property Tax receipts.

In relation to the Housing Assistance Payment (HAP), Limerick City and County Council provides a highly effective HAP transactional shared service on behalf of all local authorities. This HAP Shared Services Centre (SSC) manages all HAP related rental transactions for the tenant, local authority and landlord. Accordingly, my Department does not recoup individual local authorities in respect of HAP rental payments in their administrative areas but rather recoups all landlord cost via the HAP SSC. A breakdown of average HAP payments to landlords in each local authority area at 31 December 2016, and a breakdown of the number of households supported by HAP, in each local authority area for 2014, 2015 and 2016 and up to the end of Q3 for 2017, are available on my Department’s website at the following link:

http://www.housing.gov.ie/housing/social-housing/social-and-affordble/overall-social-housing-provision. 

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2017 (to end November)