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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

Monday, September 12, 2022

QUESTION NO. 1

QUESTION: Councillor Yvonne Collins

To ask the Chief Executive to list the number of vacant houses/apartments in tabular form by Local Electoral Area, to confirm how many of these will be returning to available housing stock and to set out the timeframe for such return.

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 2022, re-let works have been completed on vacancies arising in 123 Council-owned social homes up to the end of August, representing a 50% increase on the number of properties re-let for the same period in 2021.  The cumulative average time for these properties to be re-let to date in 2022 is almost 29 weeks, which represents an improvement of some 18% on the final overall re-let times for 2021.  While various measures are being implemented and explored to continue to improve this figure, it is particularly contingent on contractor resourcing/availability and acceptance of offers of accommodation following Choice Based Letting expressions of interest.

There are currently 110 vacant homes within our housing stock, representing 1.1% of our overall housing stock, which are at various stages of the re-letting process as follows:

Area	Pre-Works	Works In Progress	Ready for Allocation	Total
Clondalkin	12	1	2	15
Lucan	3	0	0	3
Rathfarnham-Templeogue	0	0	1	1
Palmerstown-Fonthill	25	5	5	35
Firhouse-Bohernabreena	1	1	1	3
Tallaght Central	4	1	2	7
Tallaght South	30	4	12	46
Total	75	12	23	110