Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein)
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243. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount requested from counties Cavan, Monaghan, Meath, Louth, Longford and Westmeath from the repair and lease scheme and buy and renew scheme since January 2018 to date in 2020; and the number of private properties that have been bought by local authorities to rehouse persons in these counties through the repair and lease and the buy and renew schemes in tabular form. [39327/20]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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The Repair and Leasing Scheme (RLS) and the Buy & Renew Scheme (B&R) are complementary schemes which were developed to assist private property owners and local authorities or approved housing bodies (AHBs) to harness the accommodation potential that exists in vacant dwellings.

Delivery and funding data for the period 2017-2020, for both schemes, in relation to Cavan, Monaghan, Meath, Louth, Longford and Westmeath county councils is set out below. The allocation of dwellings delivered under RLS and B&R is a matter for the relevant local authority.

Table: B&R and RLS Delivery and Funding 2017-2020