Aengus Ó Snodaigh (Dublin South Central, Sinn Fein)
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395. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the crisis in funding in Dublin City Council regarding the progressing of disability adaptations of local authority homes including bed, bathroom extensions that have a long waiting list; if he will consider a supplementary budget to allow them to clear this backlog. [39415/13]

Aengus Ó Snodaigh (Dublin South Central, Sinn Fein)
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396. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the crisis in funding in Dublin City Council regarding the progressing of applications for adaptations of local authority homes to address overcrowding that has a long waiting list; if he will consider a supplementary budget to allow them to clear this back log. [39416/13]

Jan O'Sullivan (Limerick City, Labour)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 395 and 396 together.

Under my Department’s Social Housing Investment Programme (SHIP), funding is provided to local authorities for a range of measures to improve the quality and standard of the social housing stock, including the regeneration of disadvantaged estates and flat complexes, estate-wide remedial works, the energy retrofitting of older properties and the provision of adaptations and extensions to meet the specific needs of tenants.

This year my Department is providing funding of over €62 million to Dublin City Council in respect of their 2013 social housing programme. This includes €31 million for regeneration projects and €9.8 million for remedial works projects. An allocation of €300,000 was specifically provided for extensions and adaptations to tenanted properties.

Adaptations and extensions to properties may also be carried out as part of approved regeneration and remedial works schemes. In addition, local authorities may also address overcrowding and other specific housing needs in the context of the acquisition of built properties under SHIP. Last July I announced an allocation of so me €3.8 million to Dublin City Council for the acquisition of properties this year.