Vol. 522 No. 3
188 Mr. Ring asked the Minister for the Environment and Local Government the funding, if any, he has provided to the urban councils in County Mayo to enable them to provide central heating for elderly people who live in their houses giving details for each urban council for the past three years; if he has any plans to provide funding for 2000 in this regard; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18626/00]
The management, maintenance and improvement of their rented dwellings, including the installation of central heating, is the responsibility of local authorities to be defrayed from their own resources. Local authorities may, if they so wish, seek on a case by case basis my approval for the use of their internal capital receipts, which are in excess of the requirements of their programme for the provision of local authority houses, for improvement works such as the provision of central heating to their dwellings. However, there are no funds available from my Department for this purpose.
