John Connolly (Galway West, Fianna Fail)
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495. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total allocation of funding provided to each local authority in 2024, 2025 and 2026 for change of tenancy works in their housing stock, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [65018/25]

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. Local authorities are also statutorily required to ensure all of their tenanted properties are compliant with the provisions of the Housing (Standards for Rented Houses) Regulations, 2019.

The programme has provided €31 million to local authorities in 2024 and 2025 respectively to support the refurbishment and re-letting of a minimum of 2,300 homes and 1,900 homes in each year, and continue the transition from a reactive, voids approach to a Planned Maintenance approach.

This funding will increase to €40m in 2026 to continue support for the prompt turnaround of casual vacancies in local authority social homes.

An annualised breakdown by local authority of the funding provided and the number of properties remediated under the Voids programme is available on my department's website at the following link: www.gov.ie/en/collection/0906a-other-local-authority-housing-scheme-statistics/#voids-programme.

Data on delivery under the 2025 Planned Maintenance/Voids Programme, and local authority allocations for 2026, will be available early next year.