Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 18 June 2015
243. Deputy Robert Dowds asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if the Health Service Executive will supply bathroom adaptations for persons with a disability living in council-owned accommodation. [24337/15]
View answer244. Deputy Robert Dowds asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if the Health Service Executive Cherry Orchard facility, Dublin 10, will supply bathroom adaptations for persons with disabilities living in council-owned accommodation; his views on best practice in this regard; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24338/15]
View answer245. Deputy Robert Dowds asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if the Health Service Executive will install a walk-in-shower in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 22. [24339/15]
View answerI propose to take Questions Nos. 243 to 245, inclusive, together.
My Department provides funding to local authorities for various social housing supports, including for adaptations and extensions to the social housing stock to meet needs of local authority tenants with a disability or to address serious overcrowding. Funding provided by my Department meets 90% of the cost of such works, with each local authority providing the remaining 10%. The administration of the grants is a matter for individual local authorities, in this case South Dublin County Council. My Department has no direct involvement with individual applications.
I recently announced funding of €11m for these measures in 2015 ; details of the allocations can be accessed on my Department’s website at the following link : http://www.environ.ie/en/GeneralNews/MainBody,41581,en.htm.
