Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 24 September 2015
211. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the number of persons, by local authority area, in tabular form, who have applied for housing adaptation grants and who are currently awaiting a decision; and the number of these applicants who have a disability. [32652/15]
View answer212. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the number of persons in each local authority area who are awaiting payment of a housing adaptation grant following a successful application for same; and the number of these persons who have a disability. [32653/15]
View answerI propose to take Questions Nos. 211 and 212 together.
My Department allocates funding to local authorities towards the cost of adaptations and extensions to social housing to meet needs of tenants with a disability and towards the Housing Adaptation Grants Schemes for Older People and People with a Disability, which supports owners of private houses.
Detailed information in relation to people who have applied for the grants, or are awaiting payment in each local authority area, is not available in my Department, as the detailed administration of the schemes, including the receipt of applications, their assessment and the payment of grants to applicants, is a matter for individual local authorities.
