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Dáil Éireann díospóireacht -
Tuesday, 21 Oct 1980

Vol. 323 No. 3

Written Answers . - County Donegal Housing .

465.

andMr. White asked the Minister for the Environment (i) the amount of capital finance requested by Donegal County Council for house building purposes for 1980, (ii) the date of the request, (iii) the amount initially allocated and the date of the allocation and (iv) whether any money was allocated subsequently and, if so, the amount and the date of allocation.

: On 4 January and 28 February 1980 requests were received by my Department from Donegal County Council for a total of £5.5 million in respect of their local authority housing programme in 1980. Capital expenditure amounting to £2.45 million was authorised for the purpose by the Department's letters of 14 March and 17 September.

The position in respect of Donegal County Council must be considered in the context of other housing authorities generally. The total of the capital allocations sought by all the authorities early in 1980 was in excess of £140 million. Examination by the Department of the claims established that these preliminary estimates were greatly inflated having regard to the extent of the house building work in progress at the time or likely to be commenced during the year.

The local officials concerned in the case of Donegal County Council recently assured my Department that no housing project in their current programme for which there is a genuine urgent need is being held up by lack of finance and that, in fact, it is anticipated that the council's housing capital overdraft will be lower at the end of 1980 than at the beginning of the year.

466.

andMr. White asked the Minister for the Environment the total number of local authority houses commenced in County Donegal in (a) 1978, (b) 1979, (c) the first six months of 1980 and (d) since 30 June 1980.

: The numbers of local authority houses commenced in County Donegal in each of the periods mentioned are (a) 262, (b) 199, (c) 79 and (d) 57 (up to 30 September 1980) respectively.

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