Ms Ruth Buggie:

This initiative is to support age-friendly interventions and I believe it is due for national roll out. A member of the local authority will attend a person’s home and assess it for suitability for a range of different inclusion and upgrade measures. The local authority looks at the older person’s upgrade grant but also at the variety of SEAI grants and helps the person to make those applications. It is an in-house service that wraps around all of the needs of the householder. It is a really good way of linking up and filling in the gaps that may be there if a person’s home needs more than one grant. Two or more grants can be applied for at the same time to maximise the impact for the householder.