Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 6 December 2011
248 Deputy Colm Keaveney asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide financial details for all local authorities in which budgets to deal with retrofitting and warmer homes initiatives that have been returned to the Exchequer as unspent. [38831/11]
View answerUnder my Department's Social Housing Investment Programme, local authorities are allocated capital funding each year in respect of a range of measures to improve the standard and overall quality of their social housing stock. The programme includes a retrofitting measure aimed at improving the energy efficiency of older apartments and houses by reducing heat loss through the fabric of the building and the installation of high-efficiency condensing boilers.
This year, some €32 million was provided for the retrofitting measure and, to date, around €16 million of this has been paid to local authorities. A substantial number of payment claims from local authorities are being processed in my Department at present. It is not possible to indicate the outturn for the programme as a whole until all payment claims, including claims which are still awaited from local authorities, have been examined and deemed eligible for recoupment.
Details of Exchequer allocations to local authorities in 2011 for improving the social housing stock are set out in the following table:
|
Local Authority |
Allocation |
|
Carlow County Council |
310,000 |
|
Cavan County Council |
620,000 |
|
Clare County Council |
675,000 |
|
Cork County Council |
1,375,000 |
|
Cork City Council |
1,840,000 |
|
DunLaoghaire/Rathdown County Council |
875,000 |
|
Donegal County Council |
1,090,000 |
|
Dublin City Council |
5,500,000 |
|
Fingal County Council |
925,000 |
|
Galway County Council |
640,000 |
|
Galway City Council |
450,000 |
|
Kerry County Council |
1,275,000 |
|
Kildare County Council |
700,000 |
|
Kilkenny County Council |
425,000 |
|
Laois County Council |
400,000 |
|
Leitrim County Council |
360,000 |
|
Limerick County Council |
2,425,000 |
|
Limerick City Council |
1,150,000 |
|
Longford County Council |
425,000 |
|
Louth County Council |
880,000 |
|
Mayo County Council |
745,000 |
|
Meath County Council |
470,000 |
|
Monaghan County Council |
315,100 |
|
North Tipperary County Council |
593,000 |
|
Offaly County Council |
375,000 |
|
Roscommon County Council |
400,000 |
|
Sligo County Council |
450,000 |
|
South Tipperary County Council |
1,420,000 |
|
South Dublin County Council |
2,050,000 |
|
Waterford County Council |
350,000 |
|
Waterford City Council |
600,000 |
|
Westmeath County Council |
415,000 |
|
Wexford County Council |
850,000 |
|
Wicklow County Council |
905,000 |
|
Total |
32,278,100 |
