Seán Crowe (Dublin South West, Sinn Fein)
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344. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if funding provided by his Department to Kildare County Council to repair houses has been returned; and if so, the amount. [17191/18]

Eoghan Murphy (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael)
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Section 58 of the Housing Act 1966 provides that the management and maintenance of local authority housing stock is a matter for each individual local authority in the first instance, including housing maintenance and repairs.

My Department does provide exchequer support to local authorities in respect of housing refurbishments in certain situations and, for example, in 2017 through the Voids Programme, Kildare County Council was assisted with around €200,000 in funding to refurbish 8 vacant/derelict social houses so they could be returned to productive use.

This funding was fully drawn down and I am not aware of any instance where funding has been returned by Kildare County Council to my Department under this programme.