Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 13 December 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government
Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed)
Mr. Declan Dunne:
Similar to other AHBs here, we have a responsibility in terms of regulation for the upkeep of our homes. We have an asset management strategy, which is a whole range of different approaches to maintenance and our average spend is around €10 million per year. It will probably be €12 million next year. When the scheme originally arrived from the SEAI, it was initially very attractive, so the grants might have been 60%. It is now the other way round; it is about 40%. We take advantage of that as much as possible but we have to mix and match and make sure we are not just simply doing the retrofitting, which is very important but we cannot do it to the exclusion of our responsibilities for all the other classes of maintenance for all of our other homes.
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