Louise O'Reilly (Dublin Fingal West, Sinn Fein)
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473. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update on the funding in 2026 for the rightsizing element of the Social Housing Acquisitions Programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [68590/26]

James Browne (Wexford, Fianna Fail)
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My Department's Social Housing Second-Hand Acquisitions Programme is available to local authorities to support social housing qualified households in the most challenging and precarious housing situations, helping prevent such households from falling into homelessness and supporting those in homelessness to exit into permanent housing.

Accordingly, it funds local authorities to acquire properties, as a last resort emergency option when no other solution is available, under the following priorities:

• Exits from homelessness;
• Supporting older persons, persons with disabilities, care leavers, &c; and
• Preventing homelessness and tenancy sustainment.