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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

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MEETING OF SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

Monday, September 08, 2025

QUESTION NO. 36

QUESTION: Councillor J. Spear

To ask the Chief Executive what is the average time that someone is on the medical priority list before they are made an offer of housing? Please include information over the last 10 years.

REPLY:

The table below provides the average time on list for households with medical approval from 2018 to 2025. Data prior to 2018 is not available.

Year

Average time on list

2018

8.51 years

2019

8.28 years

2020

6.15 years

2021

6.62 years

2022

6.36 years

2023

5.72 years

2024

6 years

2025 YTD

5.70 years

To date this year, the medical approval team have completed 53 allocations to households from the medical approval list.