Willie Penrose (Longford-Westmeath, Labour)
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480. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide details of the money allocated for the upgrading and renovation of local authority houses in counties Westmeath and Longford; the amount of moneys under each appropriate head that will be allocated to each local authority in 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49433/13]

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. Details of the funding allocated under such measures to Westmeath and Longford County Councils for 2013 are set out in the following table:

I intend to announce details of the capital allocations to local authorities in respect of the various measures under my Department’s Social Housing Investment Programme early in 2014.