Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 13 June 2006
422 Mr. Morgan asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if his Department has at any stage issued a circular to local authorities regarding the conditions and standards which social housing which the local authority is re-allocating must meet; and if he will make available any such circular which has been issued in the past ten years. [22334/06]
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Circulars HRT 8/93 (15 June 1993) and HRT 2/97 (14 April 1997) advised local authorities of their obligations under the Housing (Standards for Rented Houses) Regulations 1993 which detail standards for rented houses including local authority houses. Copies of these circulars are available from my Department.
423 Mr. O’Dowd asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the progress to date on the application by a group (details supplied) in County Louth for capital funding for a women’s refuge in Drogheda to his Department under the capital assistance scheme and the National Lottery fund; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22368/06]
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An application for funding under the voluntary housing capital assistance scheme has been received from Drogheda Borough Council in respect of this project and clarification on a number of aspects sought from the Council is awaited. When this is to hand the application will be further considered. Officials from my Department will, if required, meet with the Council and the voluntary body to discuss ways in which the project may be progressed.
424 Mr. Deasy asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number of social and affordable houses that have been funded by his Department and completed in Waterford city and Waterford county in each of the past five years. [22369/06]
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Details of the number of social and affordable houses that have been provided in Waterford City and county in each of the past five years are set out in my Department's Housing Statistics Bulletins, copies of which are available in the Oireachtas Library and on the Department's website at www.environ.ie. The majority of these have been funded through either Exchequer capital provision or non-voted expenditure in the form of loans from the Housing Finance Agency.
