Emmet Stagg (Kildare North, Labour)
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Question 36: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he has concluded his examination of the option of including radon remediation measures in the homes of elderly people where there is a high concentration of radon gas, under the housing aid for the elderly scheme. [13245/07]

Noel Ahern (Dublin North West, Fianna Fail)
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My Department is still continuing its examination of the possibility of including radon remediation measures as eligible works under the new scheme of Housing Aid for Older People.

My Department undertook to examine the possibility that where a suite of works is grant aided to make an older persons home habitable, radon remediation measures may be allowable in areas where radon levels are of serious concern. My Department is currently exploring the potential implications of such a measure and will be meeting the Radiological Protection Institute of Ireland shortly to progress the matter.