My Department provides funding to local authorities for various social housing supports, including for adaptations and extensions to the social housing stock to meet the needs of local authority tenants with a disability or to address serious overcrowding. Funding provided by my Department meets 90% of the cost of the works, with each local authority providing the remaining 10%.
On 28 May 2015, I announced funding of €11m for such local authority house adaptations and extensions. Dublin City Council received an allocation of Exchequer funding of €984,061, a significant increase on the equivalent allocation in 2014 of €446,161. The administration of this funding locally is a matter for each local authority, including decisions in relation to the projects to be implemented.