The administration of the disabled person's grant scheme is a matter for individual local authorities. Local authorities receive a combined capital allocation from my Department for house purchase and improvement loans and disabled person's and essential repairs grants. The breakdown of these allocations between the different schemes is a matter for individual authorities in the light of local circumstances.
Apart from these allocations, my Department's involvement with funding for the disabled person's grants scheme relates primarily to the recoupment of up to two thirds of local authority expenditure on the payment of individual grants. The grant scheme is funded at local authority level from the authorities' own resources and within the amounts included for that purpose in the local authorities' own estimates of expenditure.