Housing Adaptation Grant Funding

Friday, 6 September 2019

Questions (1966)

James Browne

Question:

1966. Deputy James Browne asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the amount allocated to each local authority under the housing adaptation grant scheme for persons with a disability in each of the years 2016 to 2018 and to date in 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35693/19]

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Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government

My Department provides funding under the suite of Housing Adaptation Grants for Older People and People with a Disability, in respect of private houses. There are three separate grant schemes available, being the Housing Aid for Older People Grant, the Mobility Aids Grant and the Housing Adaptation Grant for People with a Disability. Funding of €71.25 million has been allocated for the three schemes in 2019, with responsibility for the apportionment between the individual schemes being a matter for each local authority.

Information on these grant schemes for the years 2016 - 2018, showing the numbers of grants funded per annum and the funding provided to each local authority, is available on my Department’s website at the following link: www.housing.gov.ie/housing/statistics/social-and-affordble/other-local-authority-housing-scheme-statistics.

The following table contains details of the 2019 exchequer funding drawn down by all local authorities in respect of these grants up to the end of August this year. These amounts do not necessarily represent what each local authority has spent, as funding may have been spent but not yet claimed from my Department. Also, the amounts shown for exchequer draw down are topped up by each local authority's own 20% contribution.

Local Authority	Exchequer draw down up to 31 August 2019
Carlow	€760,231
Cavan	€283,853
Clare	€790,100
Cork County	€1,469,782
Cork City	€311,419
Donegal	€536,075
Dublin City	€4,270,982
Dun Laoghaire/Rathdown	€603,777
Fingal	€997,998
Galway County	€703,812
Galway City	€466,613
Kerry	€1,098,828
Kildare	€760,569
Kilkenny	€930,682
Laois	€128,148
Leitrim	€104,476
Limerick	€1,201,874
Longford	€187,173
Louth	€280,066
Mayo	€878,227
Meath	€998,640
Monaghan	€945,482
Offaly	€120,672
Roscommon	€435,670
Sligo	€568,806
South Dublin	€1,231,339
Tipperary	€1,455,303
Waterford	€686,406
Westmeath	€353,003
Wexford	€1,154,390
Wicklow	€435,215

Over the course of each year, my Department works closely with all local authorities, to monitor spend and to achieve a full drawdown of the available funding. As the year progresses, any underspend is redistributed to those local authorities with high levels of grant activity who sought additional funding.