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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

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MEETING OF SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

Monday, January 10, 2022

QUESTION NO. 14

QUESTION: Councillor C. O'Connor

To ask the Chief Executive what actions he is taking to deal with the boarded up vacant Council houses and returning them to housing stock for allocations; in respect of each Electoral Area, will he detail how many such units have been dealt with this year and also how many such units are now vacant and will he make a statement?

REPLY:

Our Housing Maintenance and Refurbishment section undertake re-let works on vacant housing stock throughout the County to ensure stock is brought back into productive use for letting as soon as possible. In 2021, re-let works were completed on vacancies arising in 134 Council-owned social homes.  

There are currently 91 vacant homes within our housing stock, representing 0.95% of our overall stock.  These are at various stage of the re-letting process as follows:

Area Pre-Works Works In Progress Ready for Allocation Total
Clondalkin 1 5 3 9
Lucan 1 1 0 2
Rathfarnham-Templeogue 0 3 0 3
Palmerstown-Fonthill 18 4 7 29
Firhouse-Bohernabreena 0 2 0 2
Tallaght Central 1 4 0 5
Tallaght South 11 22 8 41
Total 32 41 18 91

Allocations processes are underway for many of these properties and our housing allocations, maintenance and estate management teams are engaged in ongoing review of all aspects of the re-let process, including tenancy surrenders, contractor appointments, use of direct labour resources, work scheduling, offers/allocations and the use of the new integrated housing system, to work to continue to increase efficiencies and improve our average re-let times.