asked the Minister for the Environment when approval will be granted to Roscommon County Council for local authority houses in Roscommon, Boyle, Strokestown, Castlerea, Ballinlough, Ballaghaderreen, Elphin, Ballyfarnon, Frenchpark and Monksland; and the date plans were submitted for Henry Street and Abbey Street, Roscommon, for Chapel Street, Boyle and Monksland by Roscommon County Council.
Written Answers. - Roscommon Local Authority Houses.
103.
The capital provided this year for the local authority housing construction programme has already been fully allocated and it is not possible to issue sanction in 1987 for the schemes referred to by the Deputy. I am not in a position at this stage to indicate for next year what funds will be available to individual housing authorities and consequently what schemes will be approved.
The details of the individual schemes requested by the Deputy are as follows:—
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Scheme |
Documentation Received |
Date Received |
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Roscommon |
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Abbey Street-Henry Street (8 elderly persons' dwellings) |
Layout and Cost Plan |
12/10/1987 |
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Boyle |
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Chapel Street (7 Elderly Persons' Dwellings) |
Layout and Cost Plan |
12/8/1987 |
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Monksland |
Layout and Cost Plan |
26/8/1986 |
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(24 houses) |
Layout for amenity land |
9/9/1987 |
104.
asked the Minister for the Environment when a loan sanction will be approved for Roscommon County Council to carry on structural repairs for 38 houses in Boyle, County Roscommon.
A proposal under the remedial works scheme has been received for the refurbishment of dwellings at Termon, Tangier and Mockmoyne, Boyle. As Roscommon County Council proposed that they would carry out refurbishment works at Termon initially, this project was approved in principle on 15 October 1987 and the submission of the necessary technical documentation and costings was requested. Pending the submission and examination of this data, and the necessary loan application, I will not be in a position to make a decision in regard to funding.
105.
asked the Minister for the Environment the amount of finance available to Roscommon County Council over and above that which is already committed for 1988 for the granting of SDA loans.
Roscommon County Council's capital allocation for 1987 for house purchase loans is £2,216,000. The allocations to individual housing authorities for 1988 have not been settled. However, the authorities have been advised, in connection with the arrangements for transfer of some of the demand for house purchase from housing authorities to provide sector lending agencies, that the capital available to individual authorities in 1988 would not exceed 60 per cent of the amount of the allocations for 1987.