Paul McAuliffe (Dublin North West, Fianna Fail)
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132. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount spent on voids in the four different local authorities in each of the years 2016 to 2020 and to date in 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38374/21]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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Under the Voids Programme funded by my Department, over €65 million was provided to the four local authorities encompassing the geographic area of the county and city of Dublin in the period 2016-2020. This figure is in addition to the funding provided by the local authorities through their own resources to prepare vacant units for re-letting.

The table below provides a breakdown of the funding provided under this programme.

My Department announced earlier this year that funding will be provided for the refurbishment and re-letting of approximately 3,000 social homes this year. Each local authority has been allocated a number of properties and work in this regard is underway but it will be later this year before significant recoupment claims are lodged with my Department. Full details in relation to the 2021 drawdown of funding for any local authority will be available early in 2022.