Tommy Broughan (Dublin North East, Independent) | Oireachtas source

With regard to the spring statement next week, will there be any Supplementary Estimates for services that have huge backlogs? I refer in particular to the adaptation grants for citizens with disabilities. In the Dublin City Council area there is a two year waiting list. A number of my constituents are desperately in need of housing adaptations. One constituent, Mr. Jack Lynam, is a double amputee who has been treated in hospital and his family must wait for two years, until 2017 or 2018, to get the necessary funding. Recently, the Minister for Health, Deputy Varadkar, managed to secure additional funding. Will additional funding be provided for the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government and, specifically, Dublin City Council? Our other local authority, Fingal County Council, does not appear to have the same level of waiting list.

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