asked the Minister for the Environment if a person (details supplied) in County Offaly is entitled to a new house grant; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
Written Answers. - Grant Payments.
The receipt of additional information requested from the applicant is awaited.
164.
asked the Minister for the Environment if persons (detail supplied) in County Offaly are entitled to a tenant purchaser grant of £5,000 which was approved in respect of the proposed purchase of a dwelling house which is not now going ahead, but to which approval the persons concerned wish to avail of in respect of a dwelling house they are proposing to build; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
Where the purchase or construction of a house in respect of which provisional approval had issued under the £5,000 surrender grant scheme is not being proceeded with, an application for the grant in respect of a different house can be considered only where the applicants satisfy the relevant local authority that, at the time of abolition of the scheme, they had, on foot of a legitimate expectation of receiving the grant, entered into a legally binding and irrevocable commitment in respect of the second house.
165.
asked the Minister for the Environment the approximate date on which payment of a new house grant to a person (details supplied) in County Laois will be made.
There is no record of the receipt of an application for a new house grant from the person named at the address given.
166.
asked the Minister for the Environment the reason for the delay in payment of a house improvement grant to a person (details supplied) in County Louth; and when payment will now be made.
There was no delay. The grant has been paid.