Barry Cowen (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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113. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide a county breakdown of the amount of money spent and units upgraded under the improvement works in lieu of local authority housing scheme in 2010, 2011, 2012 and to date in 2013. [48484/13]

Jan O'Sullivan (Limerick City, Labour)
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The Improvement Works in Lieu (IWIL) scheme allows local authorities to improve or extend privately owned accommodation which is occupied or intended to be occupied by an applicant approved for social housing as an alternative to the provision of social housing.

Under my Department’s Social Housing Investment Programme, funding i s provided to housing authorities in respect of the IWIL scheme and for the provision of necessary adaptations or extensions to properties to meet the needs of tenants with a disability (DPG) . It is a matter for each local authority to decide the specific level of funding to be directed to each of these measures out of the allocations provided. Details of the amounts recouped to local authorities for the period 2010 to 2012 and the initial allocations for 2013 are set out in the following table.

IWIL's & DPG's

My Department collates and publishes a wide range of housing and planning statistics that inform the preparation and evaluation of policy and those data are available on my Department’s website Data on the number of houses improved as part of the scheme are included as part of that range.