asked the Minister for Local Government if he is aware that the failure of the Galway County Council to acknowledge promptly applications for housing grants is causing anxiety to applicants, and particularly to those persons who have erected, partly erected, or reconstructed houses in the expectation of receiving grants to which they are entitled; further, that the delay in allocating grants is retarding applicants in the erection and reconstruction of their houses, and, if so, if he will take steps to ensure that all applications received are acknowledged without further delay, and that payment of grants is expedited.
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Housing Grants.
asked the Minister for Local Government if he will ascertain from the Galway County Council the number of applications for housing grants, which have been received by them, but which have not yet been acknowledged, indicating the number of acknowledgments outstanding for more than (a) two years, (b) one year, and (c) six months.
asked the Minister for Local Government if he will state, in respect of County Galway, the number of cases in which his Department's housing grant has been paid but in which the county council grant has not yet been paid.
I propose, with your permission, a Cheann Comhairle, to take Questions Nos. 69, 70 and 71 together.
I am not aware of the position referred to by the Deputy. The operation of the supplementary grants provisions of the Housing Acts is entirely in the hands of the housing authority concerned, to whom I will have the Deputy's representations forwarded. The statistical information requested is not available in my Department.