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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 […]

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The gift of home: 180 Kilkenny people get keys to new houses before Christmas

By Kilkenny Now 17th December 2019 0

Some people in Kilkenny are getting one of the greatest presents a person can get for Christmas– a home to call their own. The €12 million Respond Housing project on the Ballybough Street in Kilkenny city is all but full, with just one remaining family yet to move in. Respond has been handing over keys […]

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Housing Minister visits sites set to deliver 3,000 homes to Kilkenny

By Kilkenny Now 3rd August 2019 0

By COLIN BARTLEY HOUSING Minister Eoghan Murphy visited three developments in Kilkenny that could provide more than 3,000 new homes in the city. The minister visited three developments in the city and county as he joined Taoiseach Leo Varadkar at the launch of the €100 million Abbey Quarter regeneration project this week. Minister Murphy first […]

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Just 14 Kilkenny social homes would receive maximum Government energy retrofit grant

By Kilkenny Now 25th July 2019 0

BY COLIN BARTLEY JUST 14 social houses in Kilkenny would benefit from a full energy efficiency retrofit grant from funding provided by the Government. Kilkenny received just 1.29% of the total funding available for the upgrading of the energy efficiency of local authority homes this year. Just €321,562 is allocated to Kilkenny out of a national […]

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‘Kilkenny Council must be given power and funds to fight our housing crisis’ – councillor

By Kilkenny Now 16th May 2019 0

A KILKENNY councillor has urged the Government to “remove the red tape” and release the funding needed for the local authorities to solve the deepening housing crisis. Cllr Andrew McGuinness spoke out after a new report by the property website Daft.ie this week revealed rents in Kilkenny city are at an all-time high, while the […]