I propose to take Questions Nos. 1180 and 1242 together.
Applications have been received from some 70 local authorities under my Department's 2004 central heating programme for local authority rented dwellings. The following applications by authorities for funding under the scheme have been approved to date:
Local Authority
|
Allocation €
|
City Councils
|
|
Cork
|
500,000
|
Dublin
|
500,000
|
Galway
|
280,000
|
Waterford
|
500,000
|
Borough Councils
|
|
Drogheda
|
112,000
|
Kilkenny
|
200,000
|
Wexford
|
150,000
|
County Councils
|
|
Carlow
|
100,000
|
Cavan
|
200,000
|
Clare
|
200,000
|
Cork (North)
|
150,000
|
Cork (South)
|
200,000
|
Donegal
|
200,000
|
Dún Laoghaire — Rathdown
|
300,000
|
Fingal
|
300,000
|
Galway
|
200,000
|
Kerry
|
200,000
|
Kilkenny
|
200,000
|
Laois
|
200,000
|
Leitrim
|
150,000
|
Limerick
|
120.000
|
Longford
|
200,000
|
Meath
|
200,000
|
Monaghan
|
200,000
|
North Tipperary
|
120,000
|
Offaly
|
200,000
|
Roscommon
|
200,000
|
Sligo
|
200,000
|
South Tipperary
|
200,000
|
Waterford
|
200,000
|
Westmeath
|
200,000
|
Wexford
|
200,000
|
Wicklow
|
200,000
|
Town Councils
|
|
Arklow
|
50,000
|
Ballina
|
120,000
|
Ballinasloe
|
100,000
|
Birr
|
100,000
|
Decisions will issue in respect of the remaining applications as soon as possible.
The above table includes an allocation of €500,000 made to Dublin City Council to assist its ongoing programme of installing central heating in tenancy houses.