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Finneran announces go-ahead for Remedial Works Schemes costing over €26m

31/12/09

Michael Finneran, T.D., Minister for Housing and Local Services, today (31 December, 2009) announced approval for Remedial Works Schemes costing over €26 million under his Department’s Housing Capital Programme. The schemes, located across eleven local authority areas, are designed to improve the physical fabric and energy efficiency of housing in the estates concerned, as well as improvements to the local environs.

The new remedial works schemes now to be given the go ahead under the programme, and which are to be supported by significant Exchequer funding, are -

• Connaught Road, Scariff, Co. Clare
• Ennis Town Housing Stock
• Tralee Housing clusters
• South Leitrim Estates - Phase 1 - Treanmore & Dristernan
• Alverno Court, Laytown, Co. Meath  and
• Ballylynch, Carrick on Suir, Co. Tipperary.

“As well as these 6 additional projects, priority projects at Parkview Estate in Charlestown, Co Mayo, clusters of houses in Boyle, Co. Roscommon, and the Cushlawn, Greenfort & Shancastle estates in South Dublin, which were given design approval earlier this year will now proceed to tender shortly, with a view to early starts in 2010”, the Minister added.  A further two remedial works schemes at Vartry Heights, Wicklow and Larchville (Phase 1B) in Waterford City, are also added to the programme.

“My Department’s remedial works programme provides support for local authorities to significantly improve run-down estates by improving the layout, addressing issues of anti-social behaviour, improving the housing fabric, and where possible addressing issues of social exclusion” said the Minister. “Despite the contraction in the overall Government capital programme, I am delighted that we have secured an increase in Exchequer funding to provide a total of €195 million for Estate Regeneration and Remedial Works in the 2010 Estimates”, he added, “with a further €45 million provided for energy efficiency retrofitting of existing local authority housing.”

In addition to the schemes announced today, the 2010 funding will allow the Department to continue to support some 55 remedial works projects underway around the country. These range from the refurbishment of small rural cottages in Mayo, Galway, Leitrim and Limerick, to estate improvements, house refurbishments, and infill developments in large local authority estates and flat complexes in the city areas of Dublin, Cork, and Waterford.  Minister Finneran highlighted the double benefit realised from remedial works projects “which not only improve the physical fabric of local communities, but are also highly labour intensive and offer opportunities to stimulate local employment throughout the country.” 

“Despite these difficult times”, the Minister said, “it is vitally important that we continue to invest in our communities, to preserve the neighbourhoods in which families were reared and to add to the quality of local housing options available for the next generation, with a focus on the many newly formed family units who are now seeking social housing appropriate to their needs.” 
 

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