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Local Authority Housing

Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 12 June 2012

Tuesday, 12 June 2012

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Dessie Ellis

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442 Deputy Dessie Ellis asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to arrange for extra funding in respect of the repair of serious long-term maintenance issues in local authority housing in the Dublin area which are very negatively affecting the lives of tenants. [28200/12]

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Under my Department's Social Housing Investment Programme, local authorities are allocated capital funding each year in respect of a range of measures to improve the standard and overall quality of their social housing stock. The programme includes a regeneration measure for large social housing estates and flat complexes, an estate-wide remedial works scheme, a retrofitting measure aimed at improving the energy efficiency of older apartments and houses, and grants for the provision of extensions or adaptations to meet the needs of local authority tenants with a disability.

In March I announced details of the 2012 housing capital allocations to local authorities, totaling some €251.5 million. In excess of €62 million has been made available this year to support the various housing programmes being progressed in the Dublin City Council area. Routine and planned social housing maintenance works are funded under the local authority's own housing maintenance programmes.

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