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Housing Grants.

Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 27 October 2004

Wednesday, 27 October 2004

Questions (276)

Arthur Morgan

Question:

381 Mr. Morgan asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the estimated cost of increasing the disabled persons housing grant to cover 100% of the cost of approved building costs on the basis of need. [26004/04]

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Written answers

Based on activity levels in 2003, local authorities paid €50,481,000 to cover 5,739 disabled persons grants. Assuming that this represented 90% funding, it is estimated that the cost of increasing the grant to cover 100% could be just over €5 million.

This estimate should, however, be regarded as an approximate one only. Factors such as the number of grants paid in any one year, the value of grants paid, the difference in building costs across the country and the percentage of grant paid by each local authority could cause the real additional cost to diverge from the above estimate.

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