Mairéad Farrell (Galway West, Sinn Fein)
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397. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to outline the financial supports available to people with damaged roofs in private housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50371/25]

Christopher O'Sullivan (Cork South-West, Fianna Fail)
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Under my Department, the National Built Heritage Service (NBHS) provides financial support for the protection of eligible heritage buildings and historic structures through two grant schemes which are, in the main, administered by the local authorities. These are the Built Heritage Investment Scheme (BHIS) and the Historic Structures Fund (HSF), and the qualifying works for both of these schemes can include repairs to roofs.

The BHIS provides funding for repair/conservation works, including to roofs, to the following types of buildings:

• Protected structures
• Structures eligible for or proposed for inclusion in the RPS but not yet formally approved for inclusion
• Structures in Architectural Conservation Areas
• Vernacular buildings

• Protected Structures
• Structures eligible for or proposed for inclusion in the RPS but not yet formally approved for inclusion.
• Structures or works within an Architectural Conservation Areas (ACAs), or within the amenity of a National Monument