I propose to take Questions Nos. 282 and 284 together.
This Scheme of Community Support for Older People is administered and funded by my Department with the services delivered locally by community and voluntary groups. It currently provides support to these organisations to fund the once-off installation costs of socially monitored alarms, small items of physical security and in the case of qualifying older people living on our offshore islands, interior emergency lighting. The socially monitored alarm system remains the property of the organisation that receives the grant aid.
The Scheme had funded 410 community groups to date in 2009 providing 6,235 older persons with security equipment with the vast majority of them receiving the socially monitored alarm. The Scheme will remain open until revised arrangements are put in place in 2010. Details of all payments made to beneficiary groups under the Scheme are published monthly on a county basis on my Department's website at www.pobail.ie.