Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 27 May 2026
130. Deputy Thomas Gould asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if his attention has been drawn to that the assistant chief executive of Dublin City Council informed the Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage that Dublin City Council submit the results of housing maintenance surveys to the Department through IT infrastructure (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40440/26]
Amharc ar fhreagraThe 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. 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. Ultimately, surveys are completed, uploaded 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. While updated headline data, namely the quantum and percentage of surveys completed, is available weekly to the Department, it currently does not have direct access to the system. Notwithstanding, the substance of the surveys undertaken by local authorities, the substance of those surveys, and the condition of their respective social housing stocks, remain matters entirely for those authorities and should be addressed directly to them.
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 |
233 |
10.2% |
|
Cavan |
2,351 |
117 |
5.0% |
|
Clare |
3,277 |
665 |
20.3% |
|
Cork City |
11,850 |
199 |
1.7% |
|
Cork County |
8,197 |
285 |
3.5% |
|
Donegal |
5,244 |
0 |
0.0% |
|
Dublin City |
26,685 |
1,198 |
4.5% |
|
Dun Laoghaire |
5,525 |
914 |
16.5% |
|
Fingal |
7,050 |
170 |
2.4% |
|
Galway City |
2,789 |
200 |
7.2% |
|
Galway County |
3,391 |
67 |
2.0% |
|
Kerry |
4,647 |
400 |
8.6% |
|
Kildare |
6,576 |
183 |
2.8% |
|
Kilkenny |
3,063 |
358 |
11.7% |
|
Laois |
2,430 |
29 |
1.2% |
|
Leitrim |
1,202 |
465 |
38.7% |
|
Limerick |
6,137 |
1,963 |
32.0% |
|
Longford |
2,337 |
71 |
3.0% |
|
Louth |
4,699 |
343 |
7.3% |
|
Mayo |
2,388 |
0 |
0.0% |
|
Meath |
4,847 |
1,899 |
39.2% |
|
Monaghan |
1,990 |
185 |
9.3% |
|
Offaly |
2,255 |
411 |
18.2% |
|
Roscommon |
1,916 |
474 |
24.7% |
|
Sligo |
2,401 |
28 |
1.2% |
|
South Dublin |
10,619 |
2,828 |
26.6% |
|
Tipperary |
5,671 |
211 |
3.7% |
|
Waterford |
6,460 |
389 |
6.0% |
|
Westmeath |
2,532 |
64 |
2.5% |
|
Wexford |
5,549 |
769 |
13.9% |
|
Wicklow |
5,688 |
406 |
7.1% |
|
Total |
162,058 |
15,524 |
9.6% |
