Section 58 of the Housing Act 1966 provides that management and maintenance is a matter for each individual local authority. This includes maintenance programmes and carrying out responsive, planned and pre-letting repairs.
Notwithstanding this, my Department also provides financial support to local authorities under various targeted: social housing stock upgrade programmes; large-scale urban regeneration programmes; support for the return of vacant units to productive use; the Energy Retrofitting Programme; and, adaptations and extensions for people with disability in social housing.
My Department also provides separate capital funding in respect of the Social Housing Investment Programme, to all local authorities, including Donegal County Council, for the delivery of new social homes via their social housing construction programme, through turnkey arrangements and through acquisitions.
In respect of local authority housing stock in Donegal impacted by defective concrete blocks, further evaluation of the issue is being undertaken by Donegal County Council. The outcome of this evalutaion will be the subject of a submission by Donegal County Council to my Department. Once this is received my Department will, in consulation with Donegal County Council, consider the matter.
