Darragh O'Brien (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Minister for his response and for his useful explanation. I accept the Minister's answer on the spreading of the tax credit over a couple of years. It is sensible. I will not push that recommendation.

I have a further question for him on a matter not specific in the Bill. The local authorities operate disabled persons' grant schemes and accessibility schemes for upgrades to houses, in particular, for the elderly. In many of those grant schemes, an individual can get up to 80% in some instances or, depending on earnings, 70%. Is there anything that precludes them? For instance, if someone gets work done on his or her house for €10,000 and from the local authority, through the disabled persons' grant or the accessibility grant, gets half of it, perhaps the Minister would clarify whether the person would be able to get the tax credit on the other work done by way of a payment of €5,000 or would the person be precluded because he or she applied for one of those type of grants?