Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein)
Link to this: Individually | In context

322. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total amount provided to local authorities for vacant social housing acquisitions in each of the years 2020 to 2024 and to date in 2025; and the number of such acquisitions purchased in each year. [62517/25]

James Browne (Wexford, Fianna Fail)
Link to this: Individually | In context

My Department does not capture data on the full extent of vacant properties purchased by local authorities for social housing across the breadth of Department funded programmes.

That said, local authorities are specifically supported to purchase and upgrade vacant and derelict properties for social housing via the Buy and Renew stream of my Department's Social Housing Second Hand Acquisitions Programme. Some 330 social homes have been acquired and delivered through this scheme since 2020. The quantum purchased and funding provided for each year since 2020 is detailed below.