Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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320. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of homes brought into use under the repair and lease scheme by local authority and year; the number of applications and overall expenditure in respect of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18368/19]

Eoghan Murphy (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael)
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At the end of 2018, a total of 1,260 applications for the Repair and Leasing Scheme (RLS) had been received from property owners; 89 homes had been brought back into use and were tenanted; and 132 agreements for lease had been signed. A detailed breakdown of the RLS scheme data by local authority up to end Q4 2018 is available on my Department’s website at the following .

The data for Q1 2019 is currently being collected and will be published on my Department's website when available.

A breakdown of the 89 homes delivered under the scheme by year and Local Authority is set out in Table 1. Total expenditure in respect of homes delivered under RLS is set out in Table 2.  Data in relation to total expenditure is based on local authority claims for operational RLS agreements recorded on the Department’s financial management system.

Table 1: RLS Delivery 2017 and 2018

Table 2: Total RLS Expenditure 2017 and 2018