Conor Sheehan (Limerick City, Labour)
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738. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide a breakdown of the amount allocated to each local authority for the tenant-in-situ scheme in 2023 and 2024 and the amount drawn down by each local authority for this scheme, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23706/25]

James Browne (Wexford, Fianna Fail)
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The clear focus of Government is to increase the supply of new build social and affordable homes. Increasing the overall housing supply is key to addressing the housing challenge and in particular preventing and ultimately eliminating long term homelessness.

Social Housing acquisitions targets, including Tenant in Situ acquisitions, were increased by way of Government decision in 2023 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 such acquisitions 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.

Tenant in Situ acquisitions have been an important measure in the prevention of homelessness since their introduction in 2023. The €325 million allocation I announced on 31 March 2025 has been made available to our local authorities for their social housing second-hand acquisitions activity in 2025, with individual allocations for the local authorities being notified to them on 1 April 2025. This is part of almost €2 billion in total which is supporting local authorities and approved housing bodies to deliver new social homes in 2025. Our main emphasis remains on constructing new homes and that unquestionably, is the correct approach.

It will be a matter for the local authorities to decide how they use this funding within the priority categories being supported by the programme. I am keen that they obtain good value for money in supporting priority tenants and that they maximise the number of acquisitions.

My Department publishes comprehensive programme-level statistics on a quarterly basis on social and affordable housing delivery activity by local authorities and Approved Housing Bodies (AHBs). Comprehensive data on social and affordable housing is published on my Department's website up to Quarter 4 2024, including completed acquisitions: www.gov.ie/en/collection/6060e-overall-social-housing-provision/.

For 2023 and 2024, acquisition targets were set for each local authority rather than capital funding allocations.

These targets for each year are set out in the table below.