Máire Devine (Dublin South Central, Sinn Fein)
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230. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when his Department will complete the definitions for the extent of the 2025 tenant-in-situ scheme; the other options available to tenants who are facing live notices to quit and would otherwise qualify for the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7223/25]

Emer Currie (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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247. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on the allocation of funding towards tenant-in-situ schemes in Dublin for 2025 (details supplied); the assurances can be given or actions taken to accommodate the processing of applications for these particular tenants in the 2025 announcement; and the measures will be taken in advance of 2026 to ensure this gap between allocations does not happen again. [6966/25]

Emer Currie (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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248. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to extend the eligibility of the tenant-in-situ scheme to all tenants in rented accommodation instead of tenants who already receive the housing assistance payment or the rented accommodation scheme, as this is a scheme that protects families from homelessness (details supplied). [6967/25]

Paul McAuliffe (Dublin North-West, Fianna Fail)
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259. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of homes acquired under the tenant-in-situ scheme in 2024 by each local authority and the budget allocation for acquisitions in 2025 for each local authority, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7080/25]

Paul McAuliffe (Dublin North-West, Fianna Fail)
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260. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he will issue a statement to each local authority advising them of their budget for housing acquisitions in 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7081/25]

James Browne (Wexford, Fianna Fail)
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I propose to take questions Nos. 230, 247, 248, 259 and 260 together. The Tenant in Situ Acquisitions Programme was introduced by way of Government decision in 2023. It was originally intended as a short term response to the reported uplift in sales by landlords of homes which were within the HAP and RAS schemes in order to prevent potential homelessness where other solutions could not be found for the affected tenants.

A further Government decision extended the programme into 2024 with approval granted for 1,300 Tenant in Situ acquisitions in addition to the 200 priority acquisitions target for 2024 contained in Housing for All.

It is a matter for individual local authorities to identify suitable acquisitions in line with local circumstances and their social housing allocations policy. Local authorities take appropriate steps to ensure that their first response will be to support households to prevent homelessness in cases where tenants have been served with a notice of termination by their landlord. A local authority will assess the options available in each case and decide the appropriate action.

These options include securing the continuation of the tenancy with the landlord, securing alternative accommodation through the Housing Assistance Payment Placefinder, allocating another Rental Accommodation Scheme property, or allocating a social housing tenancy, including voids, untenanted properties or properties available with an Approved Housing Body.

A decision on a tenant in situ programme for 2025 is expected to be made by Government shortly and will be notified to local authorities thereafter.

The Cost Rental Tenant In-Situ (CRTiS) scheme was introduced on 1 April 2023 for tenants in private rental homes who are not in receipt of social housing supports but are at risk of homelessness because a landlord has served a valid Notice of Termination due to an intention to sell the property.

The Local Authority conducts the initial assessment for eligibility of the tenant for this scheme and refers potential cases to the Housing Agency, which is responsible for administering and managing the scheme on behalf of my Department, pending further policy development over the longer term. I am informed that the Housing Agency has engaged with more than 220 landlords across all Local Authority areas, with a view to the purchase of those homes.

My Department publishes comprehensive programme-level statistics on a quarterly basis on social housing delivery activity by local authorities and Approved Housing Bodies (AHBs) in each local authority. Comprehensive data on social and affordable housing is published on my Department's website up to Quarter 3 2024, including completed acquisitions: .

Data for all of these schemes up to Q4 2024 is being collected and collated.