Written answers
Thursday, 22 May 2008
Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs
Care of the Elderly
4:00 pm
Áine Brady (Kildare North, Fianna Fail)
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Question 178: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the schemes his Department operates which would offer financial support for the installation of a house alarm for an old age pensioner. [20296/08]
Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail)
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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. Funding is provided towards the once-off cost of installing monitored alarm systems, door and window locks, door chains, security lighting, smoke alarms and in the case of qualifying older people living on our offshore islands, interior emergency lighting. The Scheme does not cover house alarms and I have no plans at present to extend the Scheme.
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