Housing Adaptation Grant Funding

Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 3 November 2015

Tuesday, 3 November 2015

Ceisteanna (1072)

Róisín Shortall

Ceist:

1072. Deputy Róisín Shortall asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the amount of funding for housing adaptation grants for older people; for people with a disability living in private houses, by grant type, by local authority, in each of the past three years; the basis on which these allocations were made; and if he will publish the criteria, data or other factors which determined the amount awarded to each local authority. [37888/15]

Freagraí scríofa

Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government

Information on Exchequer funding provided by my Department to each local authority for these schemes is available on my Department’s website at the following link:

http://www.environ.ie/en/Publications/StatisticsandRegularPublications/HousingStatistics/ ,

by selecting ‘Social and Affordable Housing’, ‘Housing Adaptation Grants by Area 2008 to date’. Details of the 2015 allocations are available on my Department’s website at the following link:

http://www.environ.ie/en/GeneralNews/MainBody,41581,en.htm.

Exchequer funding of €40.4 million is available for these schemes in 2015 and the allocations to individual authorities were based primarily on their level of grant activity in 2014, with no local authority getting less than their 2014 allocation. As the 2015 funding is 10% greater than 2014, the additional funding was allocated across local authorities on the basis of population statistics, with a weighting applied in respect of the number of persons aged over 65 years.