Local Authorities
Dail Éireann — 2025-05-15
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John Cummins (FG), Waterford

The Deputy's question asked about planned maintenance, so that is the answer I gave. We want to move towards more of a planned maintenance approach, which is appropriate. We do not want to see voids left for significant periods. Huge amounts of money have been spent in the voids programme but we want to move to a planned maintenance approach so that we can relet council properties and reuse our existing stock to the fullest. As per the latest NOAC report from 2023, the performance of some local authorities is better than others in reletting properties. It goes from 13.27 weeks in Laois to 65 weeks in Kerry. Something is clearly happening in Laois that is not happening in Kerry. It is not to pick on those two local authorities, but they are the outliers. There are many in between. We have to move to a planned maintenance approach and away from the voids approach. At the same time, we are committed to giving considerable money to the voids programme because we see the value in it.

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Sitting date: 2025-05-15