Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 4 February 2004
314 Ms Shortall asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the local authorities in 2003 who sought his Department's approval to use their internal capital receipts which were surplus to the requirements of their housing construction and remedial works programme for the provision of central heating and window replacement in their rented housing stock; and the amount in each case. [3337/04]
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Since 1994, my Department has required that central heating be provided during construction in new local authority dwellings and included in the overall cost of the schemes.
The management, maintenance and improvement of their existing rented dwellings, including the installation of central heating and-or window replacement is, in principle, the responsibility of local authorities to be financed from their own resources. Where capital funding is provided under remedial or regeneration schemes operated by my Department for the upgrading of local authority dwellings, the provision of central heating and-or window replacement may form part of the work undertaken.
Local authorities may also seek my Department's approval to use their internal capital receipts, which are surplus to the requirements of the local authority housing construction and remedial works programmes, for improvement works including the provision of central heating and-or window replacement in their rented housing stock. The following proposals put forward by authorities for such improvement works were approved by my Department in 2003.
|
Local Authority |
Amount of Internal Capital Receipts |
|
€ |
|
|
Dungarvan Town Council |
50,000 |
|
Ennis Town Council |
190,210 |
|
Carrick-on-Suir Town Council |
100,000 |
|
Macroom Town Council |
66,000 |
|
Cobh Town Council |
77,700 |
|
Listowel Town Council |
75,500 |
|
Tralee Town Council |
91,000 |
|
Carlow County Council |
100,000 |
|
Meath County Council |
52,500 |
|
Kilkenny County Council |
500,000 |
|
Dundalk Town Council |
842,615 |
|
Offaly County Council |
105,000 |
|
Tullamore Town Council |
250,000 |
|
Westmeath County Council |
171,300 |
|
Athlone Town Council |
66,000 |
|
New Ross Town Council |
50,000 |
|
Galway County Council |
1,300,000 |
|
Donegal County Council |
400,000 |
|
Dun Laoghaire/Rathdown County Council |
614,625 |
|
Sligo County Council l |
95,000 |
|
Ballinasloe Town Council |
20,000 |
|
Clones Town Council |
120,000 |
|
Westport Town Council |
250,000 |
