Maureen O'Sullivan (Dublin Central, Independent)
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158. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if funding will be made available to maintain the many voids that have been boarded up for a number of years in Dublin's inner city so that persons on the housing waiting list can have some chance of securing a home of their own; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9984/14]

Jan O'Sullivan (Limerick City, Labour)
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As part of a €50 million stimulus for the construction sector announced on Budget Day, some €15 million is being set aside to fund a programme of retrofitting works aimed at returning vacant and boarded-up local authority houses to productive use. My Department will be inviting local authorities to submit proposals in this regard very shortly. It is intended that as many as 500 houses will be refurbished and made available to persons in need of social housing this year.