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Elderly people in the RAPID areas of Galway city are set to benefit from a the €100,000 funding announced this week for small-scale health and community projects.

Carlow County Council’s housing department is hoping to raise close to €8 million in loans in order to fund current and future projects, it was revealed.

The new housing development at Boreen Bradach, Kinnegad was officially opened this week by Deputy Michael Finneran, Minister of State for Housing, Urban Renewal, and Developing Areas.

Bennettsbridge Fine Gael Councillor Pat O’Neill has revealed that Kilkenny County Council has 40 vacant affordable houses while there are 1,300 people on the local authority housing scheme waiting list.

A total of €84,000 has been allocated to two community-based projects in Westmeath to fund the employment of additional staff.

The Irish Council for Social Housing (ICSH), the state’s national social housing federation, has launched a new national energy saving scheme this week in Ballinasloe, Co Galway. In association with Bord Gais, the scheme was developed to benefit housing associations, which provide more than 20,000 homes for families, older people, the homeless, and people with disabilities throughout the country.

Green Party TD for Carlow Kilkenny, Mary White, has welcomed the Department of the Environment allocation of over €18m in funding to Kilkenny’s local authorities for social housing.

Critical infrastructure and the allocation of social housing needs to be seriously addressed by government legislation. The putting in place of critical infrastructure for badly needed projects in Ireland and the processes involved in ensuring such projects become a reality needs to be radically overhauled and the whole timeframe needs to be dramatically speeded up and transformed.

The number of families on Athlone Town Council housing lists soared by almost 158 per cent between 2005 and March 2008, according to new figures released by the Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government.

The number of families on Westmeath County Council housing lists soared by over 40 per cent between 2005 and March 2008, according to new figures released by the Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government.