Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 19 May 2026
618. Deputy Thomas Gould asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage what the indicative results on the ICT system show from stock maintenance surveys to date, given that his Department indicated at the Oireachtas housing committee recently that it had some oversight of cumulative results. [37490/26]
Amharc ar fhreagra648. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide an update on the social housing stock condition surveys, with a breakdown by local authority of the number of surveys undertaken; the percentage of the local authorities stock that has been surveyed to date; the methodology being used for the surveys; the data his Department is collating; and whether this information will be published by his Department at any stage. [37765/26]
Amharc ar fhreagraI propose to take Questions Nos. 618 and 648 together.
The management and maintenance of local authority social homes, including pre-letting repairs and the re-tenanting of vacant properties, is a matter for each individual 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, local authority elected members and officials 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 local authority responsibilities in this regard, my Department is providing €260 million this year to support the remediation and maintenance of local authority social homes across a range of funding programmes. This includes €40 million under the Planned Maintenance and Voids Programme to support stock condition surveys, planned maintenance works, and the efficient turnaround of vacant local authority owned homes.
More than 15,000 stock condition surveys have been completed to date. My Department does not collect or collate data from these surveys. Rather, the surveys and the stock condition data emerging from them are managed by the respective local authorities through an ICT Asset Management system hosted by the LGMA. Surveys are completed and used primarily by local authorities for the purpose of informing their respective planned maintenance work programmes, and to support the sector's continued transition from a reactive voids approach to a proactive planned cyclical programme of inspection, repair, and replacement. My Department does not review, analyse or report on the substance of the completed surveys. These are matters entirely for respective local authorities and should be addressed directly to them.
It is expected all local authority social homes will be surveyed by end-2030 and progress to date, as reported by local authorities via the ICT Asset Management System, is set out in the table below.
|
County |
Total Properties |
Surveys Completed |
Completed Surveys (%) |
|
Carlow |
2,292 |
221 |
9.6% |
|
Cavan |
2,351 |
113 |
4.8% |
|
Clare |
3,277 |
665 |
20.3% |
|
Cork City |
11,850 |
185 |
1.6% |
|
Cork County |
8,197 |
275 |
3.4% |
|
Donegal |
5,244 |
0 |
0.0% |
|
Dublin City |
26,681 |
1,162 |
4.4% |
|
Dun Laoghaire |
5,525 |
913 |
16.5% |
|
Fingal |
7,050 |
170 |
2.4% |
|
Galway City |
2,789 |
200 |
7.2% |
|
Galway County |
3,391 |
65 |
1.9% |
|
Kerry |
4,648 |
393 |
8.5% |
|
Kildare |
6,576 |
181 |
2.8% |
|
Kilkenny |
3,063 |
357 |
11.7% |
|
Laois |
2,430 |
29 |
1.2% |
|
Leitrim |
1,202 |
465 |
38.7% |
|
Limerick |
6,137 |
1,924 |
31.4% |
|
Longford |
2,337 |
71 |
3.0% |
|
Louth |
4,685 |
336 |
7.2% |
|
Mayo |
2,388 |
0 |
0.0% |
|
Meath |
4,835 |
1,886 |
39.0% |
|
Monaghan |
1,989 |
179 |
9.0% |
|
Offaly |
2,249 |
411 |
18.3% |
|
Roscommon |
1,916 |
472 |
24.6% |
|
Sligo |
2,401 |
28 |
1.2% |
|
South Dublin |
10,618 |
2,808 |
26.4% |
|
Tipperary |
5,671 |
207 |
3.7% |
|
Waterford |
6,460 |
370 |
5.7% |
|
Westmeath |
2,532 |
63 |
2.5% |
|
Wexford |
5,549 |
764 |
13.8% |
|
Wicklow |
5,686 |
404 |
7.1% |
|
Total |
162,019 |
15,317 |
9.5% |
