Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats)
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303. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount of funding granted to each local authority through the estate regeneration remedial works programme since its introduction. [23032/21]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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The Estate Regeneration and Remedial Works consists of a suite of programmes including Regeneration, Remedial Works Schemes, Disabled Persons Grants (DPGs) and Improvements Works in Lieu (IWILs).

The Regeneration programme consists of multi-year programmes of large-scale regeneration projects in Limerick, Cork and Dublin and smaller projects in Tralee, Sligo and Dundalk. These projects seek to address the causes of disadvantage in these communities through a holistic programme of physical, social and economic regeneration. The regeneration projects being funded by the Department target the country’s most disadvantaged communities, including those defined by the most extreme social exclusion, unemployment and anti-social behavior.

The Remedial Works Scheme provides funding to assist housing authorities to carry out major essential repairs to certain groups of their rented dwellings which they cannot fund from their own resources. It is focused on full estate remediation works rather than individual houses.

The DPG scheme provides funding to local authorities to undertake housing adaptations and extensions to their stock in order to meet the needs of tenants who are elderly or disabled or to address overcrowding.

The IWILs programme allows local authorities to fund the improvement or extension of existing sub-standard privately owned dwellings, as an alternative to the provision of local authority housing.

Details of this funding for each local authority for Regeneration, Remedial Works Schemes, Disabled Persons Grants (DPGs) and Improvements Works in Lieu (IWILs) from 2016 to the end of 2020 is set out in the table below. While my Department has provided funding to local authorities under the Estate Regeneration Program over many years prior to 2016 its compilation would involve considerable time and resources. However, if the Deputy is concerned about a specific local authority or local authorities, I will have the matter explored further on receipt of the relevant information.