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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

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MEETING OF TALLAGHT AREA COMMITTEE

Tuesday, October 28, 2025

QUESTION NO. 6

QUESTION: Councillor D. Richardson

"Can the Manager report on how many vacant social houses in Tallaght area and how long that they are vacant?"

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 current turnaround time from the date a property is surrendered to the date it is allocated is 23.85 weeks.

There are currently 26 vacant homes in Tallaght within our housing stock which are at various stages of the re-letting process as follows:

Electoral Area

Survey

In Progress

Ready

TOTAL

Tallaght South

2

16

7

25

Tallaght Central

1

0

0

1

TOTAL

3

16

7

26

The 7 properties ready for allocation are in the process of being tenanted through CBL and other allocation processes.