Sorca Clarke (Longford-Westmeath, Sinn Fein)
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197. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of demountable dwellings by county; the year that they were installed in tabular form. [36928/21]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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My Department does not have data on the number of demountable dwellings by county. The use of demountables is not commonplace and where they might be used, it will a decision of the individual local authority for whatever specific reasons might apply to an individual case.

On occasions some funding support may be provided to a local authority from my Department if a demountable was part of an emergency accommodation response, or where a single rural dwelling was being developed, the local authority may provide a demountable as an interim accommodation arrangement for their tenant pending the completion of the new build. In such a case, the demountable may be funded as part of the overall project costs supported by my Department.

Other situations might arise where a local authority uses a demountable which is funded from their own resources. Information on the use of demountables by individual local authorities may be available from the authorities themselves.