Paddy McHugh (Galway East, Independent)
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Question 564: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government to make funding available to enable applicants under the special housing aid for the elderly scheme to have essential works carried out to their homes in East Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18442/06]

Noel Ahern (Dublin North West, Fianna Fail)
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The special housing aid for the elderly scheme is administered by a Task Force under the aegis of my Department and operated at local level by the Health Service Executive.

An initial allocation of €5 million for the scheme was notified to the Western region, which includes County Galway, in February 2006 and it is a matter for the HSE Directorate of Services for Older People, which has responsibility for the administration of the scheme, to apportion funding to a particular area. A further allocation of funding will be notified to the regions, following receipt of the mid-year returns, later in the year.