Conor Sheehan (Limerick City, Labour)
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370. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of vacant local authority houses in each local authority area in each of the years 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26997/25]

James Browne (Wexford, Fianna Fail)
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Local authorities will always have a level of vacancy in their housing stock, which will fluctuate over time, as tenancy surrender and re-letting of stock is a continuous process. Therefore, ongoing data in relation to vacant local authority owned homes is not routinely collated by my Department.

Notwithstanding that, statistics in relation to social housing stock, at a point in time, 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 levels of vacancy and average turnaround times for re-letting local authority owned properties. These reports are available for 2021 and 2022 with the most recent report, relating to 2023, available on the NOAC website at the following link: www.noac.ie/18-september-2024-local-authority-performance-indicator-report-2023/.