Niall Collins (Limerick County, Fianna Fail)
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1125. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he intends to provide any additional funding to local authorities under the tenant in situ scheme in addition to the funding already provided this year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44757/25]

Jen Cummins (Dublin South Central, Social Democrats)
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1227. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when Councils will receive funding for the tenant-in-situ scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46065/25]

James Browne (Wexford, Fianna Fail)
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My Department has provided €325 million to support a second-hand acquisitions programme in 2025. The programme supports priority categories of need, including exits from homeless services, tenancy sustainment (tenant in situ), people with a disability and older persons requiring urgent housing responses, and Buy and Renew acquisitions tackling vacancy. Only €133 million (or 41%) of the allocation has been drawn down by local authorities to date.

I have recently secured a further €50 million as part the National Development Plan capital funding process to expand the second hand acquisitions programme this year. I intend this funding to be ringfenced and target acquisitions that support households, primarily larger families with children, to exit long-term emergency accommodation arrangements.

I have also written recently to local authorities authorising them to enter into acquisitions that are more likely to close and fall due in 2026. Accordingly, local authorities can now enter into financial commitments for 2026 to a value of up to 30% of their original 2025 acquisitions budget. This will allow priority acquisitions to continue in the closing months of 2025, with certainty on Department funding availability in 2026, should such purchases not complete this year.

I am satisfied the funding available this year, coupled with the flexibility to enter into commitments falling due in 2026, is adequate to meet tenant in situ and other acquisitions this year.