asked the Minister for the Environment if he will give the health boards the discretion of providing finance from a special repairs for the elderly fund for applicants who qualify for assistance from that fund who have been approved grants under the house improvement grant scheme, who are unable to provide finance from their own resources to proceed with the improvement of their houses and who have also been informed by health boards in question that it may be several years before 100 per cent grant assistance can be provided for them from the special repairs scheme for the elderly due to the large number of applicants on hand in the various health boards and the limited amount of finance available each year.
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