Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Sinn Fein)
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Question 272: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide funding for the refurbishment of windows and doors for local authority housing in areas (details supplied) in County Meath. [31816/11]

Willie Penrose (Longford-Westmeath, Labour)
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Under section 58 of the Housing Act 1966, the management and maintenance of the local authority housing stock, including the compilation and funding of ongoing maintenance programmes, is a matter for individual authorities.

Funding for such maintenance programmes has normally been provided from the local authority's own internal capital receipts. However, with the decline in internal capital receipts, funding has been provided from my Department for the maintenance and improvement of housing stock, particularly in relation to retrofitting of energy efficiency measures.

Local authorities may also use their remaining internal capital receipts to direct resources to projects which are deemed most in need of funding, including the installation of insulation, the replacement of windows and doors, and other measures to improve energy efficiency in their stock. It is a matter for Meath County Council, taking into account funding available from both my Department and internal capital receipts, to determine and progress their improvements works programme.