andMr. Tully asked the Minister for the Environment if he will give details of (1) the capital sums provided in the Public Capital Programme 1981 for the financing of the low-rise mortgage scheme for each local authority; and (2) the moneys made available to, and subsequently expended by each local housing authority in 1980.

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andMr. Tully asked the Minister for the Environment if he will state for each local housing authority the moneys being made available out of the Public Capital Programme 1981 provision of £96.25 million for: (a) grants (disabled persons), (b) loans (SDA) and (c) house improvement loans.

14.

asked the Minister for the Environment if he will state the amount of money given by his Department to each local authority under the heading of SDA loans for 1981, and the amount sought by each local authority in respect of such loans.

With the permission of the Ceann Comhairle, I propose to take Questions Nos. 12, 13 and 14 together.

Separate allocations are not made for each of the several housing loans and grant schemes operated by local authorities. Instead a single allocation is made to meet authorities' expenditure requirements on them.

The total provision for the payment of local authority housing loans and supplementary grants in 1981 is £101.650 million of which £5.50 million is for the low-rise mortgage schemes. The capital provided for these services in 1980 was £71.5 million of which £5.25 million was in respect of the low-rise mortgage schemes. Final expenditure figures for 1980 are not yet available for the schemes involved.

Details of the 1981 allocations for housing loans and grants which were notified to the local authorities concerned on February 6 1981 were given in my reply to Question No. 18 on February 11 last.

Because there appears to be a mix-up about these questions, perhaps I could ask just one supplementary and add a request that the Minister take the brief back to the Department and try to find out what went wrong. Is the Minister aware that a number of local authorities have discontinued in the main the low-rise mortgage schemes for 1981? Is he aware that low-rise mortgage schemes which applied to the new tenants of local authority houses have been discontinued completely? Is this the wish of the Department or are the local authorities doing something which the Department do not approve of? During my time in office I introduced these low-rise mortgage schemes and they were intended to apply to all those schemes.

What the Deputy alleges had not been brought to my attention but I will have the situation investigated and will communicate with the Deputy.

I am making a formal complaint that this is happening. I consider it to be outrageous.