Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 5 April 2006
265 Mr. Stagg asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his views on allocating further funding under the home improvement scheme for the elderly and central heating grants to the Health Service Executive in County Kildare, in view of the fact that its budget for 2006 is exhausted. [13596/06]
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The special housing aid for the elderly scheme is administered by a task force under the aegis of my Department and operated at local level by the Health Service Executive, HSE.
An initial allocation of €2.2 million for the scheme was notified to the Dublin and mid-Leinster region, which includes County Kildare, in February 2006 and it is a matter for the HSE directorate of services for older people, which has responsibility for the administration of the scheme, to apportion funding to a particular area. A further allocation of funding will be notified to the regions, following receipt of the mid-year returns, later in the year.
