Lucinda Creighton (Dublin South East, Fine Gael)
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Question 295: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if, in view of the changes in the budget, there will be sufficient funding available to carry out the proposed precinct improvements for a complex (details supplied) in Dublin 2, in 2009; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14199/09]

Michael Finneran (Roscommon-South Leitrim, Fianna Fail)
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As part of the Housing Management Initiative, local authorities have been given delegated sanction for the delivery of their annual Improvement Works Programmes subject to specific conditions and overall programme approval from my Department. Funding for these programmes is provided from the authority's own internal capital receipts from the sale of local authority dwellings and so the progression of component projects is a matter for the authority involved having regard to the funding available.

While the project concerned was included in a programme previously approved by my Department, I now understand from Dublin City Council that while still committed to its Improvement Works Programme, the decrease in the level of internal capital receipts available to the Council means that the project concerned is unlikely to proceed this year.