Pa Daly (Kerry, Sinn Fein)
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291. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of voids brought back into the housing stock in the year 2022; and the number of these that were previously vacant for longer than six months, in tabular form, broken down by local authority. [9933/23]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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The management and maintenance of local authority housing stock, including pre-letting repairs to vacant properties, the implementation of a planned maintenance programme and carrying out of responsive repairs, are matters for each individual local authority under Section 58 of the Housing Act 1966.

Since 2014, Exchequer funding has also been provided through my Department's Voids Programme to support local authorities in preparing vacant units for re-letting. This funding was initially introduced to tackle long term vacant units and is now increasingly targeted at ensuring minimal turnaround and re-let times for local authority vacant stock.

An annualised breakdown by local authority of the funding provided and the number of properties remediated under the Voids programme for the years 2014-2022 is available on my Department's website at the following link:

www.gov.ie/en/collection/0906a-other-local-authority-housing-scheme-statistics/#voids-programme.

Statistics in relation to the social housing stock are published by the National Oversight and Audit Commission (NOAC) in their Annual Reports on Performance Indicators in Local Authorities. These reports provide a range of information in relation to social housing stock, including the level of vacancy and by local authority. The most recent report, relating to 2021, is available on the NOAC website at the following link:

noac.ie/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/NOAC-PI-Report-2021-FINAL.pdf.

Further details in relation to vacancy periods should be available upon request from each local authority.