Jack Wall (Kildare South, Labour)
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Question 1556: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the funding available from his Department to local authorities to allow them to remove asbestos within local authority housing estates where such asbestos is used for domestic sheds; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29894/06]

Noel Ahern (Dublin North West, Fianna Fail)
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A specific funding mechanism of this kind is not operated by my Department. Capital funding for major refurbishment work to local authority dwellings is available from my Department, under the Remedial Works Scheme. The management, maintenance and improvements to their rented dwellings is the responsibility of each local authority and the funding of such works may be provided by local authorities from their own resources as part of their ongoing maintenance programmes.