Written answers

Tuesday, 2 July 2019

Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government

Local Authority Housing Data

Photo of Brendan GriffinBrendan Griffin (Kerry, Fine Gael)
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705. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the funding provided to Kerry County Council to purchase social houses in 2018 and to date in 2019; the number of units purchased; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28054/19]

Photo of Eoghan MurphyEoghan Murphy (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael)
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Details of the number of properties that have been acquired by local authorities for social housing, including by Kerry County Council, in 2018 and to the end of Quarter 1 of 2019, are published and available on my Department's website at the following link: . Further details for 2019 will be published on a quarterly basis as the year progresses.

The funding provided to Kerry County Council for the purchase of social housing for 2018 was €7,597,113. For 2019, a total of €980,710 has been provided to the Council up to the end of the first quarter in respect of completed social housing acquisitions.

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