Aodhán Ó Ríordáin (Dublin Bay North, Labour)
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101. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of local authority voids returned to stock in each year in each of the years 2015 to 2019 and to date in 2020; the number of voids in each local authority; the location of these voids within each local authority; the cost per unit of bringing each unit back in stock in each of the years 2015 to 2019 and to date in 2020; the average turnaround time per year of bringing each unit back in stock; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25783/20]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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Under the Voids Programme funded by my Department, 10,162 vacant social housing homes were returned to productive use in the period 2015-2019. This figure does not include homes which were returned to productive use by local authorities using funding from their own resources.

Between 2015-2019, Exchequer funding of approximately €146m was provided supporting local authorities in preparing vacant units for re-letting.

The table below provides the full breakdown by local authority of the units funded by my Department during this time: