Cormac Devlin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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314. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of applications made by each Dublin local authority under the buy and renew scheme in each of the years since 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6282/22]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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Under 'Housing for All' the Government's priority is to deliver 47,600 new build social homes over the next five years. Substantial funding is available to local authorities and AHBs to deliver on this objective as the primary means through which they will increasingly meet the needs of those on their waiting lists.

The Buy & Renew scheme supports local authorities in purchasing and renewing vacant housing units in need of repair, which can then be made available for social housing use. Details of the number of Buy & Renew units acquired by each Dublin local authority in each of the years 2018 to 2021 are set out below. My Department is working to support increased Buy and Renew activity in local authorities.

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Cormac Devlin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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315. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of applications made by each Dublin local authority under the repair and leasing scheme in each of the years since 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6283/22]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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Data on the repair and lease scheme in respect of all local authorities to end Q3 2021 is published on my Department’s website at the following link: www.gov.ie/en/collection/6060e-overall-social-housing-provision/#repair-and-leasing-scheme-rls

This includes the number of applications received by each local authority from 2017 to the end of Q3 2021.

There are a number of reasons why applications do not result in delivery. Many vacant properties are unsuitable for the scheme. They may be derelict; in areas where there is no social housing need or otherwise unsuitable for social housing. Other units, while not being suitable, have been taken into social housing by means of leasing or the Buy and Renew Scheme; others have returned to the private market and are no longer vacant.

Houses can be vacant for various, and often complex, reasons – there is no one size fits all solution. The Repair and Leasing Scheme works as part of overall vacant strategy.

Housing for All has committed to supporting local authorities to drive expanded take-up of the Repair and Leasing Scheme as part of Pathway 4: Pathway to Addressing Vacancy and Efficient Use of Existing Stock.