Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 17 July 2014
497. Deputy Terence Flanagan asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32609/14]
View answerThe management and maintenance of the local authority housing stock, including the compilation and implementation of planned maintenance programmes and the carrying out of responsive repairs to properties is a matter for each individual local authority under section 58 of the Housing Act 1966.
My Department is committed to supporting local authorities in maintaining and improving the quality of the national social housing stock through a range of measures including large-scale urban regeneration programmes, estate-wide remedial works and improving the standard and energy efficiency of individual dwellings. Over the past 5 years around €160 million was provided to local authorities for the energy retrofitting of the social housing stock, including the necessary provision of replacement windows and doors. This year some €30 million is being provided to local authorities under the energy retrofitting programme. It is a matter for individual authorities to determine their annual retrofitting work programme and the specific properties to be improved under these programmes.
