Maureen O'Sullivan (Dublin Central, Independent)
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553. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of instances in which the improvements works in lieu of local authority housing scheme (DoEH&LG Circular N7/02) was applied across each of the local authorities in 2014, in tabular form; the aggregate number of instances in which the scheme had been applied, across all local authorities as a bloc, in each year since 2002; if he is satisfied, on the basis of date or other reports supplied to him, that the local authorities apply the terms of the scheme consistently; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41660/15]

Alan Kelly (Tipperary North, Labour)
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A total funding allocation for 2015 of €11 million nationally was made to support local authorities in undertaking adaptations and extensions to their social housing stock to meet the needs of tenants with a disability or to address serious overcrowding, and for improvement works in lieu of the provision of local authority housing. Details of the 2015 allocations are available on my Department's website at the following link: . The detailed administration of these schemes is the responsibility of the relevant local authority. The number of instances in which the scheme for improvement works in lieu of the provision of local authority housing (IWILs) was applied across each of the local authorities is not routinely collated in my Department. However the expenditure in this area by local authority in 2014 is outlined as follows, covering those two local authorities who utilised the scheme in that year.

Expenditure in this area in all local authorities each year since 2004 is also provided as follows; information covering 2002 and 2003 predates my Department's current financial management system and is therefore not readily available.

The arrangements in respect of the IWILs scheme are the same for all local authorities, but as the detailed administration of these schemes is the responsibility of the authorities themselves, they may apportion funding between the various grant measures in line with local demand and prioritisation.

Expenditure on IWILs 2014

Expenditure on IWILs by year 2004-14