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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF TALLAGHT AREA COMMITTEE

Monday, March 22, 2021

QUESTION NO.8

QUESTION: Councillor T. Costello

"To ask the Chief Executive how many people are currently on the Medical Priority housing list in the Tallaght Area and what is the average waiting times on housing broken down by bedroom size"

REPLY:

There are currently 182 applicants with medical priority from the Tallaght area.  Some of these households require properties to meet specific and complex needs but many can be accommodated in standard social housing also.  We are committed to providing additional specially adapted homes both through our social housing construction programme, acquisition programe and in conjunction with Approved Housing Bodies to meet the needs of these households. All properties coming into stock from new builds and relets are checked as to their suitability for those on the medical list such as ground floor units, wheelchair accessible/liveable, medical adaptations, etc. and  almost 10% of all allocations in 2020 were made to medical priority applicants. The breakdown of the 182 applicants from the Tallaght area is as follows:

Size	Type	Total
1 Bed	Standard Housing	22
2 Bed	Standard Housing	36
3 Bed	Standard Housing	28
4 Bed	Standard Housing	18
1 Bed	Ground Floor	19
2 Bed	Ground Floor	18
3 Bed	Ground Floor	31
4 Bed	Ground Floor	10
Total		182

  

The average waiting time to be housed by the Medical Priority Section is as follows:   

Medical Allocations 2017 to Present
Size	Type	Years
1 Bed	Standard Housing	5.7
2 Bed	Standard Housing	6.1
3 Bed	Standard Housing	6.8
4 Bed	Standard Housing	5.4
1 Bed	Ground Floor	4.2
2 Bed	Ground Floor	5.2
3 Bed	Ground Floor	4.4
4 Bed	Ground Floor	5.6
Average		5.9