Pádraig Mac Lochlainn (Donegal, Sinn Fein)
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175. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will allocate the necessary resources to Donegal County Council as requested by the Council, to enable it to make safe all of the homes in its housing stock across County Donegal; and if he will provide the necessary supports to all of the affected families. [11168/22]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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I brought a Memorandum to Government on an enhanced Defective Concrete Blocks Grant Scheme on the 30 November 2021. It included an unprecedented suite of improvements to the current scheme. Government approved the enhanced scheme which it is estimated will cost approximately €2.2Bn.

Included in the Government decision was a commitment that a parallel programme for Exchequer funding of remediation works to local authority and Approved Housing Body owned social homes would be introduced. Officials from my Department are in ongoing communciation with officials from Donegal County Council on the matter. In this regard, my Department received a submission from Donegal County Council dated 22nd November, 2021 requesting sanction for 9 additional posts for a Special Project Delivery Team for management of the issue of Defective Concrete Blocks in local authority owned Social houses.

My Department has now approved the posts sought and sanction has been conveyed to the local authority. Details of the posts are set out in the table hereunder.