Michael Ring (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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Question 424: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the funding which was allocated to Mayo County Council under the planned maintenance programme. [6905/05]

Michael Ring (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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Question 425: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the parts of County Mayo which will benefit from the allocation of funding from his Department under the planned maintenance programme. [6906/05]

Noel Ahern (Dublin North West, Fianna Fail)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 424 and 425 together.

In September 2001 my Department approved a request from Mayo County Council to raise a loan of £2 million from the Housing Finance Agency to be repaid out of internal capital receipts over a 15 year period for the purpose of upgrading the council's rented housing stock. I understand that the council has fully drawn down this loan.

The management, maintenance and improvements of their rented dwellings, including the implementation of a planned maintenance programme, is the responsibility of local authorities to be financed from their own resources. My Department does not therefore have detailed information about the works carried out by Mayo County Council on foot of the above arrangement.