Written answers
Wednesday, 20 February 2019
Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
Local Authority Housing Data
Jan O'Sullivan (Limerick City, Labour)
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69. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of local authority dwellings that were refurbished in 2018 under the voids programme by local authority; if the funds originally allocated to each local authority were drawn down; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8246/19]
Eoghan Murphy (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael)
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The voids programme provides additional support to local authorities in preparing vacant social homes for re-letting, particularly homes that would likely remain vacant for a significant period of time because of the cost of the works required. The programme assists local authorities in actively targeting such vacant properties, to minimise their turnaround and re-let times and return them to use in an energy efficient condition.
The number of local authority dwellings that were brought back to productive use during 2018, with funding provided through the voids programme, is set out in the following Table. My Department did not issue funding allocations to each local authority; instead the funding was drawn down as local authorities undertook the remediation works.
Units Returned in 2018
| No. | |
|---|---|
| Carlow | 38 |
| Cavan | 14 |
| Clare | 43 |
| Cork City | 74 |
| Cork County | 205 |
| Donegal | 86 |
| Dublin City | 495 |
| Fingal | 48 |
| South Dublin | 61 |
| Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown | 50 |
| Galway City | 3 |
| Galway County | 45 |
| Kerry | 98 |
| Kildare | 27 |
| Kilkenny | 15 |
| Laois | 12 |
| Leitrim | 30 |
| Limerick | 24 |
| Longford | 3 |
| Louth | 13 |
| Mayo | 20 |
| Meath | 59 |
| Monaghan | 52 |
| Offaly | 10 |
| Roscommon | 2 |
| Sligo | 100 |
| Tipperary | 63 |
| Waterford | 20 |
| Westmeath | 23 |
| Wexford | 8 |
| Wicklow | 24 |
| 1,765 |
Niamh Smyth (Cavan-Monaghan, Fianna Fail)
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70. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of houses acquired and purchased by Cavan and Monaghan county councils from 2013 to 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8197/19]
Eoghan Murphy (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael)
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Details of the number of houses that have been built and acquired by local authorities, including in counties Cavan and Monaghan, in each of the years 2013 to end Quarter 3 of 2018, are published and 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.
Details in respect of Quarter 4 of 2018 will be published shortly. Similar details for 2019 will be published on a quarterly basis.
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