Ciarán Lynch (Cork South Central, Labour)
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Question 170: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the amount of funding allocated in budget 2008 to the housing aid for the elderly scheme in total and to each local authority; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16781/08]

Batt O'Keeffe (Cork North West, Fianna Fail)
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Capital funding of €49.656 million is provided in the 2008 Revised Estimates for Public Services for the combined funding of the Adaptation Grant Schemes for Older People and People with a Disability. This represents the amount available for recoupment to local authorities in respect of individual grants paid under the Schemes. The Housing Aid for Older People Scheme is funded by 80% recoupment available from my Department together with 20% contribution from the resources of the local authority.

The Housing Aid for Older People Scheme will also, in due course, be funded from monies previously allocated to the Special Housing Aid for the Elderly Grant Scheme, following the transfer of the Scheme from the HSE to the local authorities. Notification of capital allocations for 2008 in respect of the Housing Adaptation Grants for Older People and People with a Disability will shortly issue to local authorities.

Peter Power (Limerick East, Fianna Fail)
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Question 171: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when he expects to release funds to Limerick County Council to award grants under the new housing aid for older persons scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16804/08]

Batt O'Keeffe (Cork North West, Fianna Fail)
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Notification of combined capital allocations for 2008 in respect of the Housing Adaptation Grants for Older People and People with a Disability Schemes will shortly issue to local authorities.

It is a matter for local authorities to decide on the level of funding to be provided for the Housing Aid for Older People Scheme in their area, from within the combined allocation notified to them by my Department for the Housing Adaptation Grants for Older People and People with a Disability Schemes, and to manage the operation of the scheme from within this allocation.