Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance)
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1564. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to estimate the full year cost of the maintenance of local authority rented homes, broken down by local authority. [42731/25]

James Browne (Wexford, 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.

There are over 150,000 local authority homes in the state and the ambition is to have stock condition surveys carried out on all local authority homes and to complete this work over 4 to 5 years, with 2025 considered as year zero. These surveys will inform future work programmes and ensure they are strategic and focused with a cyclical programme of inspection, repair and replacement. Furthermore, in 2025 all 31 local authorities are now live on the ICT Asset Management system.

My Department provides funding for the completion of stock condition surveys while also providing a funding contribution for planned maintenance works that arise from these surveys. The process has only started and therefore, information is not available relating to the full year cost of maintenance of local authority homes.