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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF TALLAGHT AREA COMMITTEE

Monday, September 26, 2022

QUESTION NO.

QUESTION: Councillor L. Dunne

"To ask the Manager what is the delay of vacant house turn around. I note a considerable amount of houses in the Tallaght area that are well over a year empty. Considering the shortage of housing, this raises concerns that so many are lying idle?"

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 56 vacant homes in Tallaght within our housing stock which are at various stages of the re-letting process as follows:

Area	Pre-Works	Works in Progress	Ready for Allocation
Tallaght South	16	18	11
Tallaght Central	0	7	4