Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein)
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132. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of social houses delivered through the buy and renew scheme, the repair and leasing scheme and the Housing Agency €70 million rolling fund since these schemes were introduced to the most recent date for which data is available; the breakdown by year and by local authority; and the cost of each scheme to date and in each year these schemes were in operation. [10792/21]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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My Department publishes comprehensive programme level statistics on a quarterly basis on social housing delivery activity. Delivery statistics to the end of Quarter 3 2020 are published on my Department’s website, at the following link: . Statistics for Quarter 4 are being collated and will be published in the coming weeks.

The Buys and Renew Scheme facilitates local authorities in acquiring and remediating vacant properties that may be suitable for social housing. The delivery and total capital drawn down by each local authority to the end of 2020 is set out in the table attached.

The Repair and Leasing Scheme (RLS) was developed to assist private property owners and local authorities or approved housing bodies to harness the accommodation potential that exists in vacant dwellings. Data to the end of Q3 2020 in relation to dwellings delivered by each local authority under RLS is available on my Department's website at the link above. Total capital funding drawn down by each local authority under RLS for the period 2017-2020 is set out on the table attached.

The Housing Agency Acquisition Fund has enabled the Housing Agency to actively engage with banks and investment companies in relation to the acquisitions of properties and the delivery and funding drawn down by each local authority is set out in the table attached.