Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 17 December 2014
244. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide details of the funding to be made available over the next 12 months specifically for the upgrade of the current empty social housing stock in the form of retrofitting and refurbishment works; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48670/14]
View answerDetails of funding to be provided in 2015 under individual elements of my Department’s Social Housing Investment Programme, including the programme for the refurbishment of vacant stock, will be set out in the 2015 Revised Estimates Volume to be published later today. Under Section 58 of the Housing Act 1966, the management and maintenance of the local authority housing stock is the responsibility of the relevant housing authority. Following a very successful programme in 2014, further provision was made for the refurbishment of vacant units in Budget 2015, and I envisage a further 1,000 vacant properties being returned to productive use through additional funding.
