Tommy Broughan (Dublin North East, Labour)
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653. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the timeline for approval of departmental funding to Dublin City Council to enable a regeneration project (details supplied) in Dublin 17 to commence so that new homes can be built in the area. [45718/13]

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 and for the demolition of some vacant properties in Darndale.

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 approve funding for further estate-wide remedial works in the Darndale area. I am, however, keeping the matter under review and I will consider the potential to progress remedial works in Darndale in the context of the remedial works programme for 2014.