Jack Wall (Kildare South, Labour)
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Question 245: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the grants he or his Department have to allow persons in receipt of the State pension to purchase house alarms; if he or his Department have plans to introduce such grants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23042/07]

Jack Wall (Kildare South, Labour)
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Question 249: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the grants he or his Department have to allow persons in receipt of the State pension to purchase house alarms; the plans he or his Department have to introduce such a scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23040/07]

Pat Carey (Dublin North West, Fianna Fail)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 245 and 249 together.

My Department manages the Scheme of Community Support for Older People, which assists qualifying older people, aged 65 years and older, by means of a community-based grant scheme. This provides funding towards the once-off cost of installing socially monitored alarm systems, door locks, window locks, door chains, security lighting, smoke alarms and interior emergency lighting for qualifying older people living on our offshore islands. The Scheme does not cover house alarms and I have no plans at present to extend the Scheme.