Local Authority Housing.

Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 18 May 2004

Tuesday, 18 May 2004

Questions (374)

Ciarán Cuffe

Question:

388 Mr. Cuffe asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his plans to allocate additional resources to local authorities to cope with housing means assessments. [14165/04]

Written answers

Minister of State at the Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government (Mr. N. Ahern)

Assessment of the housing needs of applicants for local authority housing is an integral and ongoing part of local authority administration and is appropriately reserved from the general revenues available to local authorities. It is not proposed to allocate special resources for this purpose.