Paul Murphy (Dublin South West, RISE)
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532. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 328 of 10 May 2022, the number of times that dwellings have been deemed to be inactive and notified to his Department by a local authority in the past five years in tabular form. [30345/22]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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Under the Social Housing Current Expenditure Programme (SHCEP), payments for vacant dwellings are recouped to local authorities for a maximum period of 3 consecutive months to allow for tenanting of the dwelling by local authorities.  If the dwelling remains vacant at the end of the 3-month period and has not been withdrawn from the scheme, it is deemed to be inactive and notified to my Department. No payment is made by my Department in respect of inactive dwellings.

As of end Q1 2022, of the 23,472 dwellings supported under SHCEP, 0.92% (215) were inactive.

The table below breaks down the notification of inactive units to the Department by Local Authorities as part of the quarterly payment process from 2020 to end Q1 2022 by local authority. Data before this period is not available.

Table 1: Department Notifications of Inactive Dwellings

Inactive dwellings are expected to become active again when they are re-tenanted by the local authority, in line with their overall housing stock management.