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Dáil Éireann díospóireacht -
Tuesday, 21 Oct 2003

Vol. 572 No. 6

Written Answers. - Local Authority Housing.

Ciarán Cuffe

Ceist:

367 Mr. Cuffe asked the Minister for the Environment Heritage and Local Government the measures he is taking to ensure that all local authority residents have central heating available in their homes. [23905/03]

Since 1994, my Department has required that central heating be provided during construction in new local authority dwellings and included in the overall cost of the schemes. The management, maintenance and improvement of their existing rented dwellings, including the installation of central heating, is, in principle, the responsibility of local authorities to be financed from their own resources. Where capital funding is provided under remedial or regeneration schemes operated by my Department for the upgrading of local authority dwellings, the provision of central heating may form part of the work undertaken. Local authorities may also seek my Department's approval to use their internal capital receipts which are surplus to the requirements of the local authority housing construction and remedial works programmes for the provision of central heating in their rented housing stock.

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