Kieran O'Donnell (Limerick City, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I thank Deputy Cahill. He has covered many of the matters I wish to cover in the context of housing choice for older persons.

On inclusion, we have older persons councils - through Age-Friendly Ireland - which very much engage with the local authorities. I am involving all older person representative organisations in the work I am doing in the context of the policy group on stakeholder engagement. We held a stakeholders engagement last week that was very productive.

Regarding policy initiatives, we revised the housing adaptation plans. More recently, these have been expanded. There are areas we still need to look at, however. We have increased the level of the grants and the thresholds relating to people's income.

The Deputy referred to examples. There are many examples. Through the local authority delivery action plans, I want there to be more of a focus on the delivery of housing for older people and on the choices available to individual local authorities.

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