A total funding allocation for 2015 of €11 million nationally was made to support local authorities in undertaking adaptations and extensions to their social housing stock to meet the needs of tenants with a disability or to address serious overcrowding, and for improvement works in lieu of the provision of local authority housing. Details of the 2015 allocations are available on my Department's website at the following link: http://www.environ.ie/en/GeneralNews/MainBody,41581,en.htm. The detailed administration of these schemes is the responsibility of the relevant local authority. The number of instances in which the scheme for improvement works in lieu of the provision of local authority housing (IWILs) was applied across each of the local authorities is not routinely collated in my Department. However the expenditure in this area by local authority in 2014 is outlined as follows, covering those two local authorities who utilised the scheme in that year.
Expenditure in this area in all local authorities each year since 2004 is also provided as follows; information covering 2002 and 2003 predates my Department's current financial management system and is therefore not readily available.
The arrangements in respect of the IWILs scheme are the same for all local authorities, but as the detailed administration of these schemes is the responsibility of the authorities themselves, they may apportion funding between the various grant measures in line with local demand and prioritisation.
Expenditure on IWILs 2014
|
Local Authority
|
€
|
|
Kerry Co Co
|
€17,264
|
|
Mayo Co Co
|
€112,500
|
Expenditure on IWILs by year 2004-14
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Year
|
Amount
|
|
2004
|
€7,678,721
|
|
2005
|
€6,944,370
|
|
2006
|
€5,083,846
|
|
2007
|
€3,287,383
|
|
2008
|
€2,782,877
|
|
2009
|
€1,856,264
|
|
2010
|
€3,500,567
|
|
2011
|
€1,369,189
|
|
2012
|
€424,083
|
|
2013
|
€216,338
|
|
2014
|
€129,764
|
|
TOTAL
|
€33,273,402
|
