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A Housing and Corporate Strategic Policy Committee (SPC) meeting of Donegal County Council (DCC) has been told that the council owned housing stock within the county now stands at 5,061 units with related expenditure accounting for over €47m.
This does not include 177 leased units and a further 151 RAS (Rental Accommodation Scheme) properties.
The total number of local authority tenancies stands at 5,294 with the number of new tenancies created over the lifetime of the council term from 2019 to 2023, now accounting for 1,245 of those tenancies.
To date there had also been a total of 23,918 requests for housing repairs to the council from tenants.
The figures were part of a summary of housing activity during the current council term which was presented by DCC Housing & Corporate Services Senior Staff Officer Liam McCarron at Thursday's SPC meeting held in Lifford.
The Housing Assistance Payment (HAP) scheme accounted for 1,655 recipients with new Hap tenancies in the period from 2019 to 2024 accounting for 1,194 of those successful recipients.
The largest housing costs accrued had been the for housing grants totalling €13.42m, the Voids programme at €12.29m and an investment of over €10m as part of the Council’s Energy Efficiency Retrofit programme (EERP).
The Voids Programme supports the likes of DCC to prepare vacant homes for re-letting and builds on the ongoing work to tackle vacancy and dereliction to bring vacant properties into re-use for housing.
The meeting was also told that a further €3.23m was spent on external painting while window and door replacement costs amounted to almost half a million euro.
Over 500 units benefit from grants under the Disabled persons grant at €2.73m.
Summary of Council expenditure over this term
2602 units benefited from Housing grants at a cost of €13.62m
649 units benefited under the ‘Voids’ programme at a cost of €12.9m
415 units under Energy Efficiency Retrofit programme at a cost of €10.38m
2,519 units requiring External painting at a cost of €3.32m
525 units benefited from Disabled persons grants at a costing of €2.73m
958 units benefited from the Capital replacement programme at a cost of €2.62m.
24 units under the Extension programme at a cost of €1.3m
724 units benefited from new doors and windows at a cost of €.48m
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