Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 27 January 2026
660. Deputy Thomas Gould asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the current number of stock audits completed on local authority social housing; if there is a fund to address issues identified in these audits; and if so, the overall sum allocated to this fund in 2026 and ongoing. [6324/26]
View answerUltimately, the management and maintenance of local authority housing stock is the statutory responsibility of each local authority, and the onus is on each authority to make adequate budgetary provision in their respective annual budgetary processes to address maintenance or improvements to their housing stock from within their own resources, including the significant levels of rental income generated from social housing.
Notwithstanding their statutory obligations, my department is working closely with local authorities to promote preventative, planned maintenance of social housing, informed by stock condition surveys. Local authorities continue to progress surveys, with over 10,600 completed to date. All local authority social homes will be surveyed over the next four or five years.
Some €40 million is available under the Planned Maintenance and Voids Programme in 2026 to complement local authorities' own investment in social housing maintenance. A further €140 million and €30 million is available respectively through my department's Energy Efficiency Retrofit Programme and Disabled Persons Grants to support social housing remedial works. The programme requirements and allocations will issue to local authorities in respect of each in due course.
A further €50m is available in 2026 under my Departments Regeneration Programme for projects being advanced by individual local authorities.
