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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

Monday, June 14, 2021

QUESTION NO. 14

QUESTION: Councillor C. King

To ask the Chief Executive how much has been spent on the Windows and Doors Programme County wide and by ACM, quarter by quarter since Budget 2020 and how many Households have benefited from same.

REPLY:

Approval weas given by the Council in 2019 for a planned maintenance programme including replacement or painting of windows and doors in selected older Council rented dwellings.  Following this, a procurement process commenced for a framework for contractors to replace original single glazed and/or poor performing aluminium windows and doors in older properties.  A protracted procurement was completed in January 2020 with the appointment of contractors and, although some surveys/measurements of properties had been undertaken, due to the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic and associated restrictions, works under the framework could not progress any further.

The easing of Covid-19 related restrictions on construction works in May 2021 has allowed the completion of surveys and measurements of an initial 50 properties scheduled for works under the programme.  Fabrication works are now underway and installations will now commence in the coming weeks.  It is anticipated that approximately two hundred homes will have windows and doors upgrades completed in 2021 under the programme in Allenton, Avonbeg, Airlie, Arthur Griffth, Dunawley, Foxdene estates along with selected additional priority cases at an average cost of €8,000 per home.

Following recent announcements of funding to the Council from the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage under a national Energy Efficiency Retrofit Programme, the windows and doors programme will now be co-ordinated with that programme by our planned maintenance team.