Dessie Ellis (Dublin North West, Sinn Fein)
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100. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the allocation to local authorities for housing maintenance, in tabular form. [18595/16]

Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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The management and maintenance of local authority housing stock, including the implementation of planned maintenance programmes and carrying out of responsive repairs and pre-letting repairs to properties, is a matter for each individual local authority under section 58 of the Housing Act 1966 and is not directly funded by my Department.

Over and above maintenance programmes and responsive repairs of social housing by local authorities, my Department supports local authorities under a range of specific exchequer-funded programmes to improve the quality and availability of social housing stock. These programmes include support for the return of vacant properties to productive use, improving the energy efficiency of social housing stock and providing funding towards the cost of adaptations and extensions to meet the needs of tenants with a disability or to address serious overcrowding. Full allocations for 2016 in respect of these programmes are currently been formally notified to local authorities and in the meantime, local authorities have been authorised since early 2016 to carry out works as needed, to deal with vacant social houses, to make energy efficiency improvements by way of attic/roof insulation and cavity wall insulation, and to carry out extensions/adaptations, where required.