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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF TALLAGHT AREA COMMITTEE

Monday, October 24, 2022

QUESTION NO.

QUESTION: Councillor C. O'Connor

"To ask the CEO to confirm actions being taken to deal with boarded up Council Houses in the Tallaght area; will he present details in respect of each Estate and confirm the schedule being followed to present these houses for Relet 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. The cumulative average time for these properties to be re-let to date in 2022 is 28.4 weeks, which represents an improvement 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 51 vacant homes in Tallaght within our housing stock which are at various stages of the re-letting process as follows by electoral area:

Area	Pre-Works	Works in Progress	Ready for Allocation
Tallaght South	29	10	5
Tallaght Central	6	0	1