Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 18 December 2025
502. Deputy John Paul O'Shea asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of tenant in situ applications, for social housing and cost-rental properties, completed, by local authority, for the years 2023 and 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [73457/25]
View answerThe management of acquisitions under my Department's social housing Second Hand Acquisitions Programme, including for tenancy sustainment (via tenant in situ), is delegated to the local authorities.
Critically, 'tenant in situ' is not a scheme. Rather it is a policy tool available to local authorities to prevent social housing supported households in the private rented sector from falling into homelessness. It should only be used as a last resort by local authorities when all other options have been exhausted. Accordingly, there is no application process for landlords or tenants. It is a matter for each local authority to determine whether a tenant in situ acquisition is the appropriate policy response in a given situation.
My Department publishes comprehensive programme-level statistics quarterly for social housing delivery, including for social housing acquisitions by local authorities. These data are currently available to end Q2 2025 and can be accessed at: www.gov.ie/en/collection/6060e-overall-social-housing-provision/
The data show 1,829 social housing acquisitions completed in 2023, with 1,081 acquisitions supporting tenancy sustainment. Some 1,501 acquisitions were completed in 2024, with 1,054 helping sustain social housing tenancies. It is estimated that more than 700 acquisitions have been completed so far this year, including 480 tenancy sustainment acquisitions.
Cost Rental Tenant In-Situ (CRTiS) was introduced on 1 April 2023 for tenants in private rental homes not in receipt of social housing supports but at risk of homelessness because a landlord has served a valid Notice of Termination on foot of an intention to sell the property. The scheme is managed by the Housing Agency on behalf of my Department. To end-Q3 2025 the Housing Agency has acquired or had bids accepted for 259 homes.
Data on affordable housing delivery, including CRTiS acquisitions, can be accessed at: www.gov.ie/en/department-of-housing-local-government-and-heritage/collections/overall-social-and-affordable-housing-provision/#affordable-housing-delivery
