Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Local authorities should make funding available for the upgrading of their housing stock. That is part of the management of that housing stock. I am not quite sure what the Deputy is referring to and whether he wants grant aid available for the tenants or for the local authorities. If there is a proposal for increased support for the local authority concerned, its senior management should make that case to the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage.

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