Pat Breen (Clare, Fine Gael)
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Question 176: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs when a person (details supplied) in County Clare will be facilitated with a service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24533/07]

Pat Carey (Dublin North West, Fianna Fail)
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My Department operates the Scheme of Community Support for Older People. The Scheme is open to people aged 65 and over who have a genuine need for assistance and is administered by local community and voluntary organisations throughout the country with support provided by my Department.

Maximum individual grants are provided under the scheme as follows:

€300 in respect of the once-off installation cost of socially monitored alarms

€200 in respect of physical security equipment

€200 in respect of security lighting

€50 in respect of smoke alarms

€150 in respect of interior emergency lighting for qualifying older people living on our offshore islands.

No request for funding on behalf of the person in question has been received. I understand that an Official from my Department has been in contact with this person's local group and they are now in the process of submitting an application her behalf. My Department will process this application, upon receipt.