Imelda Munster (Louth, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

What does the Taoiseach plan to do to deal with the lack of sufficient funding to deal with the backlog in housing adaptation grants every year? It is not just since Covid. It has been happening for years. There has been carryover year on year. In County Louth alone, 711 outstanding applications have been waiting for years to be dealt with, including elderly people. It is so bad that only some people in category A, the most severe cases, are being dealt with. The Government says it wants elderly people to live independently but to do that, it has to back that up with sufficient funding and deal with the backlog. Every single application, whether it is somebody who cannot access stairs or needs a wet room downstairs, represents a person with mobility and health issues. Having to wait years to get this simple adjustment to allow someone to live independently is quite shameful. What plans does the Government have? I am not talking about the funding the Government currently gives.

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