Catherine Martin (Dublin Rathdown, Green Party)
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220. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the amount spent on rectifying defective social housing in the past ten years by South Dublin, Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown, Fingal, Meath, Kildare and Donegal County Councils and Dublin City Council, by year and by council, in tabular form. [4883/17]

Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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Information on the activity and spend by individual local authorities and approved housing bodies on the maintenance and repair activity for their social housing stock is not available in my Department. Responsibility for the maintenance and repair of social housing res ts with each of the individual housing authorities and approved housing bodies in respect of the housing stock they own. Over and above the maintenance and repair of social housing carried out by the individual local authorities, my Department provides some funding for targeted programmes of stock improvement, ranging from regeneration programmes to insulation retrofitting, but such programmes are generally focused on bringing deteriorated stock up to modern standards as distinct from addressing defective stock. In certain limited circumstances, funding has been made available in order to address defective housing: details will be compiled and forwarded to the Deputy in accordance with Standing Orders.