Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 26 June 2012
398 Deputy Dessie Ellis asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the steps he is taking to ensure that companies being paid by local authorities for property management services and are responsible for insuring buildings and structures on these properties do in fact have sufficient and up to date insurance policies to cover these buildings. [30756/12]
View answerThe management and maintenance of local authority housing is a matter for the local authority concerned. Where a local authority transfers responsibility for management and maintenance to an approved housing body, responsibility for insurance remains with the local authority.
My Department is not aware of any case where a local authority has transferred responsibility for the management of a local authority housing estate to a private company.
