Under section 58 of the Housing Act 1966, the management and maintenance of the local authority housing stock, including the compilation and funding of on-going maintenance programmes, is a matter for individual authorities, in this case Meath County Council.
As part of my Department’s Social Housing Investment Programme, local authorities are allocated funding each year in respect of a range of measures to improve the standard and overall quality of their social housing stock, including the regeneration of large social housing estates and flat complexes, estate-wide remedial works schemes, funding for extensions and adaptations to meet the needs of tenants with a disability etc. Funding is also provided by my Department for a programme of retrofitting works aimed at improving the energy efficiency of the housing stock. Earlier this year I allocated a total of €598,807 to Meath County Council for spending on remedial and retrofitting works on a county-at-large basis. It is a matter for the Council to plan and implement the retrofitting works to be funded from this allocation.