Alan Kelly (Tipperary North, Labour)
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597. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount of funding allocated to Tipperary County Council for the tenant-in-situ scheme for the years 2022, 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16603/25]

James Browne (Wexford, Fianna Fail)
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Support for local authorities to acquire second-hand properties for priority categories of need has since 2023, included the category of tenants-in-situ who have been in receipt of supports under HAP or RAS and who had received a Notice of Termination. The other priority categories for second-hand acquisitions are properties that allow persons/families to exit homelessness; one-bedroom properties to deliver on Housing First targets; specific housing required for people with a disability or other particular priority needs; and vacant properties under the Buy & Renew scheme.

My Department did not issue specific funding allocations to local authorities for the years 2023 and 2024, rather each local authority was provided with an initial allocation for the number of acquisitions to be funded. In 2023, Tipperary County Council had an initial allocation of 20 acquisitions under all categories, however the overall number of acquisitions undertaken by them was 78 of which 40 properties related to tenants-in-situ acquisitions. For 2024, their initial allocation was 30 acquisitions and data on completions for the full year 2024 is currently being finalised and will be published shortly. Data on social and affordable housing up to Quarter 3 of 2024, including completed acquisitions, is on my Department’s website at the following link: www.gov.ie/en/collection/6060e-overall-social-housing-provision/.

For 2025, rather than provided local authorities with an allocation for the number of acquisitions to be funded, instead I have made a total of €325 million available to them for their social housing second-hand acquisitions and asked that they prioritise tenant-in-situ acquisitions, while also allowing other priority categories of need to be acquired as each local authority sees fit, with Tipperary County Council having a capital funding allocation of €5 million for the year.