Paul Murphy (Dublin South West, Solidarity)
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1625. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide a breakdown by local authority of the annual amount spent on local authority housing maintenance. [43594/25]

James Browne (Wexford, Fianna Fail)
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Local Authority (LA) gross expenditure is published annually by Local Authorities in their Annual Financial Statements (AFS) and the information is generally available on the individual Local Authority’s website. Each local authority is required to prepare an AFS by the end of March following year end and to publish it by the end of June. These financial statements undergo an independent audit by the Local Government Audit Service. When all audits are complete, my Department publishes a consolidated AFS; the most recent one published is for 2023 and is available at this link:

www.gov.ie/en/collection/e103b-local-authority-annual-financial-statements

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. Local authorities also have a legal obligation to ensure that all of their tenanted properties are compliant with the provisions of the Housing (Standards for Rented Houses) Regulations, 2019.

Notwithstanding the legal obligation on local authorities my Department provides annual funding under a number of focused stock improvement programmes, namely planned maintenance/voids, Energy Efficiency, Disabled Person Grants and Regeneration with almost €200 million of Exchequer funding available annually to support this work.

The amount spent on housing maintenance by local authorities in their revenue (current) account in 2023 (the most recent audited figures available to the department) are listed below.

2023 figures

Paul Murphy (Dublin South West, Solidarity)
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1626. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide detailed information on the annual amount spent on housing maintenance by approved housing bodies. [43595/25]

James Browne (Wexford, Fianna Fail)
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Approved Housing Bodies (AHBs) are independent, not-for-profit organisations providing affordable rented housing for people who cannot provide housing from their own means and for particular groups, such as older people, disabled people or homeless people.

The ongoing management and maintenance of Approved Housing Body properties is a matter for each individual AHB to decide and fund where necessary, with due regard to the standards expected of them under regulation (by AHBRA, the RTB and other bodies such as HIQA where relevant).

The Approved Housing Bodies Regulatory Authority (AHBRA) was formally established in 2021 under the Housing (Regulation of Approved Housing Bodies) Act 2019. AHBRA’s establishment aimed to put in place a regulatory regime to oversee the management and governance of AHBs, particularly as the sector expanded in size and importance in delivering social and affordable housing under national housing strategies. The authority is tasked with providing an independent regulatory framework that ensures AHBs operate in a manner that is financially sustainable, properly governed, and capable of meeting their commitments to tenants and funders.

One of AHBRA's statutory functions relates to the collection of information concerning AHBs as the Regulator considers necessary and appropriate. The AHBRA Monitoring Programme requires AHBs to provide information relating to their organisation in the areas of tenancy management, property and asset management, financial management and reporting, and governance by completing an Annual Monitoring Form (“AMF”).

Key insights from the AHBRA Monitoring programme are available on its website:

www.ahbregulator.ie/app/uploads/2025/07/AHBRA-Sectoral-Analysis-Insights-from-the-2024-AHB-Monitoring-Programme.pdf

The Approved Housing Bodies Regulatory Authority (AHBRA) can be contacted by Oireachtas members via email at oireachtasqueries@ahbregulator.ie.