Maintaining Kildare council homes costs over €16m a year
By Paul O'Meara
Published 29th Jun 2022, 18:00 GMT
Expense
Kildare County Council spent just over €16.2m on housing maintenance in 2021.
Figures produced at a KCC meeting on May 30 show that this increased from nearly €12.5m the year before (2020).
In 2019, housing maintenance cost €9.8m while the maintenance bills were €10.8m and €9.6 in 2018 and 2017 respectively.
Just over €10.5m has been budgeted for housing maintenance in the current year.
The information was sought by Newbridge councillor Peggy O’Dwyer who wanted to know if more staff resources or money is needed.
KCC official Annette Aspell said that more money is needed and the budget allocated is “not keeping up” with the maintenance needs.