Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 22 April 2009
585 Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will make funding available to local authorities for disability grants in 2009; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15443/09]
View answer604 Deputy Jack Wall asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when local authorities will be informed of the funding allocated to each local authority by his Department for disability and mobility grants that are allocated by each authority; if there will be, as stated in replies to previous parliamentary questions by him in 2009, an 8% increase in funding as compared to the 2008 figures; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15919/09]
View answerI propose to take Questions Nos. 585 and 604 together.
Allocations to individual local authorities under the Housing Adaptation Grant Schemes for Older People and People with a Disability will be announced following the publication of the Revised Estimates of Public Expenditure 2009.
