Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 5 November 2013
683. Deputy Willie Penrose asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the amount of funding that will be made available to Longford and Westmeath County Councils to enable them to complete estates which are unfinished, and for which no bonds or other finance might be available; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46435/13]
View answerThe Government has provided an additional €10 million in Budget 2014 to assist the most problematic unfinished housing estates. Using this additional resource, I intend to develop a fund for the resolution of certain unfinished housing developments that have not been possible to resolve up to this point. The precise criteria under which the fund will be disbursed will be finalised shortly. However, I envisage that the fund will operate in a carefully targeted and evidence led fashion to aid the resolution of occupied developments , and in a way that will stimulate more significant investment by the owners of these developments, including generating additional employment through the resolution works.
