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Dáil Éireann debate -
Thursday, 3 Dec 1981

Vol. 331 No. 6

Written Answers - Repair Grants.

493.

asked the Minister for the Environment if he is aware that Galway County Council are unable to pay essential repair grants at present as in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Galway; and whether funds will be provided to enable these grants to be paid.

With the permission of the Ceann Comhairle, I propose to take Questions Nos. 459 and 493 together.

I am not so aware. The allocation of funds for any particular service is a matter for the local authority. In the case of both the essential repairs and the disabled persons' grants schemes a local authority are entitled to recoup from the Department half their expenditure subject to a maximum recoupment in any one case of £300 under the former scheme and £2,000 under the latter.

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