Finian McGrath (Dublin North Central, Independent)
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398. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will meet or assist the residents of an estate (details supplied) in Dublin 17 regarding regeneration of their homes. [39446/13]

Jan O'Sullivan (Limerick City, Labour)
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Under my Department’s Social Housing Investment Programme, 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 extensions and adaptations 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 in Ballymun and at a number of other locations in Dublin City. A further €9.8 million is being provided under the Remedial Works Scheme for the refurbishment of tenanted and vacant units in Liberty House and Bunratty.

Having regard to the existing high level of commitments in respect of the regeneration and remedial works projects currently underway in Dublin City and elsewhere , my Department is not in a position at this time to provide funding for the remediation of properties in Buttercup Estate . I am , however, keeping the matter under review and I will consider the potential to progress the Buttercup Estate project in the light of the funding provision for the housing programme in 2014.