Michael Ring (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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Question 483: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the position in relation to an essential repairs grant application for persons (details supplied) in County Mayo. [21383/07]

Batt O'Keeffe (Cork North West, Fianna Fail)
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The administration of the Essential Repairs Grant scheme, including the processing and approval of individual applications, is a matter for the local authority concerned and is one in which my Department has no direct function.

Olwyn Enright (Laois-Offaly, Fine Gael)
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Question 484: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when the new grant schemes, proposed under the policy document, Delivering Homes, Sustaining Communities, will come into affect; the action that will be taken regarding the applications of the old grant schemes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21390/07]

Batt O'Keeffe (Cork North West, Fianna Fail)
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The revised housing adaptation grant schemes for older people and people with a disability, which were announced earlier this year as part of the Government's new housing policy statement Delivering Homes, Sustaining Communities, will be implemented on 1 November 2007. All applications made under the Disabled Persons' and Essential Repairs Grant schemes before 1 November 2007 will be processed under the terms and conditions of the existing schemes.