Barry Cowen (Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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672. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the estimated cost of remediating building, fire safety or disability access defects in properties in use as social housing in each of the four Dublin local authorities over the past three years; and the portion of these costs that were borne by his Department and the local authorities respectively. [31286/17]

Eoghan Murphy (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael)
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My Department is committed to supporting local authorities in maintaining and improving the quality of the national social housing stock through a range of measures, including large-scale urban regeneration programmes, improving the standard and energy efficiency of dwellings, pre-letting repairs and improvement and refurbishment works to vacant properties in order to return these to productive use as quickly as possible. Works under these programmes are carried out in accordance with relevant building standards.

The routine management, maintenance and upgrade of local authority housing stock, including the identification, prioritisation and implementation of related works programmes is, however, a matter for each local authority, and it is open to each authority to fund such works from within their own resources. My Department does not, therefore, hold details in relation to costs incurred by the four Dublin local authorities in respect of the categories of work referred to by the Deputy.

In certain limited circumstances funding has been made available in order to address defective social housing; details in relation to the local authorities concerned for the years in question will be compiled and forwarded to the Deputy in accordance with Standing Orders.