Written answers

Tuesday, 19 June 2012

Department of Environment, Community and Local Government

Local Authority Housing

8:00 pm

Photo of Dara CallearyDara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail)
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Question 428: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government when funding will be made available to Donegal County Council under the Remedial Works Programme in order that repairs will be carried out on local authority dwelling houses. [28986/12]

Photo of Jan O'SullivanJan O'Sullivan (Limerick City, Labour)
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In accordance with legislative provisions set out under Section 58 of the Housing Act, 1966, local authorities are responsible for the routine and planned maintenance of their social housing stock. My Department provides capital funding for a range of measures to improve the quality and standard of older local authority housing stock, including large-scale regeneration projects, estate-wide remedial works, a retrofitting measure to improve energy efficiency and funding for extensions and adaptation to meet the needs of tenants with a disability etc.

In March, I allocated some €3 million to Donegal County Council under my Department's Social Housing Investment Programme. This included an allocation of €545,000 in respect of works to improve the energy efficiency of older housing stock and €154,022 in respect of necessary adaptations or extensions. All of the available funding under the 2012 Remedial Works Programme was allocated towards meeting contractual commitments on projects approved under the 2009-2012 programme. As there was no such commitment in respect of projects in Donegal, no provision was made for remedial works under the Council's housing allocation for 2012. I intend to review the operation of the Social Housing Improvement Works Programme, including the remedial works measure, with a view to possible changes aimed at improving the effectiveness of the various measures.

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