Michael Collins (Cork South West, Independent)
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363. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the grants that are available for renovating houses in towns or in rural areas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9609/22]

Niamh Smyth (Cavan-Monaghan, Fianna Fail)
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382. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the grants that are available from his Department to maintain and repair a rural domestic dwelling which has fallen into disrepair; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9988/22]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 363 and 382 together.

Housing for All (published in September 2021) provides a new housing plan for Ireland to 2030 with the overall objective that every citizen in the State should have access to good quality homes through a steady supply of housing in the right locations, with economic, social and environmental sustainability built into the system. The strategy sets out, over four pathways, a broad suite of measures to achieve its policy objectives together with a financial commitment of in excess of €4 billion per annum.

The suite of measures under the pathway to addressing vacancy and efficient use of existing stock includes the Croí Cónaithe (Towns) Fund which will be delivered by local authorities for the provision of serviced sites for housing, to attract people to build their own homes and to support the refurbishment of vacant properties, enabling people to live in small towns and villages, in a sustainable way.

The approach to the Croí Cónaithe (Towns) Fund, which includes a proposal for a refurbishment grant for vacant properties in towns and villages other than rural areas, is currently under consideration and it is expected that a call for proposals will issue to local authorities later this quarter.