Eoghan Kenny (Cork North-Central, Labour)
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1160. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the funding made available to Cork County Council for housing maintenance for 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45265/25]

Eoghan Kenny (Cork North-Central, Labour)
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1161. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the funding made available to Cork City Council for housing maintenance for 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45266/25]

Eoghan Kenny (Cork North-Central, Labour)
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1213. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the allocation of maintenance grant funding to Cork County Council in 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45973/25]

Eoghan Kenny (Cork North-Central, Labour)
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1214. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the allocation of maintenance grant funding to Cork City Council in 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45974/25]

James Browne (Wexford, Fianna Fail)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 1160, 1161, 1213 and 1214 together.

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. Local authority officials and elected members have a very important role to play in this regard by making adequate budgetary provision for housing repairs and cyclical maintenance utilising the significant housing rental income available to them as part of the annual budgetary process.

Since 2013 to the end of 2024, over €142 million of Exchequer funding has been invested in Cork County and Cork City Council for stock improvement works and full details in relation to the funding provided and units returned are available on my Department’s website at the following links: 

Voids Programme: www.gov.ie/en/collection/0906a-other-local-authority-housing-scheme-statistics/#voids-programme

Energy Efficiency Retrofit Programme: www.gov.ie/en/publication/668c1-energy-efficiency-retrofitting-programme-expenditure-output/

Disabled Persons Grants: www.gov.ie/en/publication/061cd-disabled-persons-grant-and-improved-works-in-lieu-schemes-allocation-and-drawdown/?referrer=

My Department continues to provide annual funding to local authorities to support their work in this area with over €16 million of Exchequer funding allocated to both Cork County and Cork City Council in 2025 as detailed below.