Niall Collins (Limerick County, Fianna Fail)
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248. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he can advise if the improvement works in lieu of social housing scheme will be reopened to new applications; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [60929/22]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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My Department provides grant funding on an annual basis to local authorities for adaptations and extensions to the existing social housing stock to meet the needs of local authority tenants. The scheme applies to works that are necessary to address the needs of older people, people with a disability or overcrowded situations.

This present funding also extends to Improvement Works in Lieu which allows works to be carried out on a privately owned house on the basis that this house will be occupied by someone on the social housing list or someone who will return their social house to the local authority in lieu of the works being done on the private house which they will occupy.

Local authorities in their administration of the scheme identify housing adaptation needs and oversee and prioritise appropriate responses to meet these needs.