Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 15 June 2016
116. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government why a person (details supplied) with a child diagnosed with Crohn's disease has to wait so long for funding to be made available for necessary home adaptations. [16374/16]
View answerMy Department provides funding to local authorities for various social housing supports, including for adaptations and extensions to the social housing stock to meet the needs of local authority tenants with a disability or to address serious overcrowding. Funding provided by my Department meets 90% of the cost of the works, with the local authority providing the remaining 10%.
My Department has no role in relation to individual applications and the administration of the available funding is a matter for the local authority based on their assessment of priority and need at the time. In relation to the Deputy’s specific query, I am advised that the local authority in question has only recently received an application in relation to this case, which is now being advanced by them.
