Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein)
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323. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount of money requested by each local authority under the voids programme in 2020; the number of units proposed to be refurbished in each local authority; the amount allocated to each local authority from this fund in 2020; and the number of units to be refurbished in each local authority in tabular form. [11161/21]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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During 2020, funding of €56.4 million was paid by my Department for the remediation of 3,607 units under the Voids Programme.

The table below sets out the breakdown of each LA submission, approval and recoupment.

My Department will continue to support local authorities through the voids programme in 2021. It is however important that local authorities increasingly move towards a preventative maintenance approach to the management of their housing stock and my Department is working with the County and City Management Association and local authorities to this end.