Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 10 February 2026
702. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the Government funds made available to local authorities in each of the years 2024 and 2025 to support the refurbishment and re-letting of homes; the number of properties remediated under the voids programme in 2015, in tabular form. [9581/26]
View answerThe management and maintenance of local authority housing stock, including pre-letting repairs to vacant properties, is a matter for each local authority under s.58 of the Housing Act 1966. Local authorities must also ensure all tenanted properties comply with the provisions of the Housing (Standards for Rented Houses) Regulations 2019. To this end, they must make adequate budgetary provision for housing repairs and cyclical maintenance utilising the significant housing rental income available to them as part of the annual budgetary process.
Notwithstanding the legal obligation on local authorities, €40 million will be provided as a contribution towards the remediation of local authority housing through my Department's Planned Maintenance and Voids Programme in 2026, with the programme requirements, including target number of units and allocations issuing to local authorities in due course.
Details on funding recouped to local authorities under Voids Programme to end 2024 is available on my Department's website at www.gov.ie/en/collection/0906a-other-local-authority-housing-scheme-statistics/#voids-programme.
Detail of delivery under the 2025 Planned Maintenance/Voids Programme will be published shortly.
