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€600,000 funding to refurbish 39 Kilkenny social homes

By Kilkenny Now 21st May 2021 0

Funding of €585,000 has been allocated to Kilkenny County Council to bring 39 dilapidated social homes back to life. The fundings has been made available under the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage’s Voids Programme for 2021. Almost €45 million has been made available to the scheme across the 31 local authorities. In Kilkenny, […]

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Plans for new €1.7m fire station in Kilkenny town unveiled

By Kilkenny Now 19th May 2021 0

Plans for a new fire station in Urlingford have taken a significant step forward. It comes after Kilkenny County Council confirmed elected representativeapproved the chief executive’s report “relating to Part 8 planning permission” for the town’s new fire station. Kilkenny’s fire services secured €8 million in funding to build two new fire stations

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Numbers on social housing lists in Kilkenny rise despite drop across country

By Kilkenny Now 10th March 2021 0

Kilkenny County Council was just one of six local authorities that recorded a rise in the number of households on their social housing waiting list in 2020. New figures releasedby the Department of Housing in the Social Housing Assessments 2020 report reveal 16 more households qualified for the council’s social housing support in 2020. The […]

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Local TD urges Minister to review HAP as rents continue to rise in Kilkenny

By Kilkenny Now 11th February 2021 0

A Kilkenny TD has called on Housing Minister Darragh O’Brien to review the current levels of Housing Assistance Payments (HAP). Deputy Funchion spoke out amid concerns that rents are continuing to rise shaply in Kilkenny, where local tenants are now forking out an average of €1,035 in monthly payments. The Sinn Féin frontbench spokesperson also […]

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Kilkenny Council given more power and money to speed up social housing projects

By Kilkenny Now 5th August 2020 0

Kilkenny County Council has been given more authority and increased funding to speed up badly needed local social housing projects. It comes after the Cabinet agreed to increase local authority discretionary funding for social housing schemes from €2 million to €6 million. The measure was one of the key commitments contained in the Programme for […]