Colm Keaveney (Galway East, Labour)
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Question 248: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide financial details for all local authorities in which budgets to deal with retrofitting and warmer homes initiatives that have been returned to the Exchequer as unspent. [38831/11]

Phil Hogan (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fine Gael)
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Under my Department's Social Housing Investment Programme, local authorities are allocated capital funding each year in respect of a range of measures to improve the standard and overall quality of their social housing stock. The programme includes a retrofitting measure aimed at improving the energy efficiency of older apartments and houses by reducing heat loss through the fabric of the building and the installation of high-efficiency condensing boilers.

This year, some €32 million was provided for the retrofitting measure and, to date, around €16 million of this has been paid to local authorities. A substantial number of payment claims from local authorities are being processed in my Department at present. It is not possible to indicate the outturn for the programme as a whole until all payment claims, including claims which are still awaited from local authorities, have been examined and deemed eligible for recoupment.

Details of Exchequer allocations to local authorities in 2011 for improving the social housing stock are set out in the following table: