Fingal County Council has announced plans to focus on improving its housing stock from a Climate Change perspective in 2019.

These comments come after it was revealed the local authority invested €12m maintaining its housing stock throughout 2018.

Some of the maintenance work included window replacement, electrical upgrades, painting and plumbing.

Director of Housing Margaret Geraghty is targeting similar maintenance and upgrade of stock this year.

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She said: "Fingal County Council has always been very strong in terms keeping that stock up to date and making sure we provide good quality accommodation. We spent €12m in 2018 on our asset management, and what that really means is we spent money on painting our stock, replacing old windows with high energy rating solutions, as well as providing electrical and plumbing upgrades."

Ms Geraghty added: "Equally in 2019, we are beginning to look at how we can continue to improve our stock from a Climate Change perspective in order to ensure our stock is efficient in terms of insulation, energy uses and solar energy among other solutions.

"We have a plan in place around that and we will continue a very strong investment programme in 2019."

(CM/MH)