Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail)
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Question 321: To ask the Minister for the Environment; Community and Local Government if he will provide additional funding to Donegal County Council for the provision of social housing, SI cottages and in meeting contractual commitments entered into by the council. [17018/11]

Willie Penrose (Longford-Westmeath, Labour)
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Funding of €6.115 million, of which €4.4 million relates to the provision of new social housing stock, was allocated to Donegal County Council under my Department's Social Housing Investment Programme for 2011. To date, some €3 million of the overall allocation has been drawn down by the Council.

All of the available capital funding for new local authority social housing projects has been committed at this stage. Requests for additional capital funding, including from Donegal County Council, will be considered in the context of any savings arising elsewhere in the programme.