Michael Ring (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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Question 1467: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his plans to provide additional funding to a local authority (details supplied) in view of the fact that the allocated funds were exhausted in July 2008; if additional funding will be provided; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30462/08]

Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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Question 1481: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the allocation of funding granted to Mayo County Council for the scheme of housing aid for older people in 2008; the allocation of funding granted to Mayo County Council for the housing adaptation grant for people with a disability in 2008; the allocation of funding granted to Mayo County Council for the mobility aids housing grant in 2008; the amount of these allocations that have been issued to Mayo County Council; if the 2009 allocations have been decided upon; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31028/08]

John O'Mahony (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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Question 1482: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will provide extra funding for the home improvement schemes to Mayo County Council; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31070/08]

Michael Finneran (Roscommon-South Leitrim, Fianna Fail)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 1467, 1481 and 1482 together.

A combined allocation of €1,242,150 was made to Mayo County Council earlier this year for purposes of the Housing Adaptation Grant for People with a Disability, Mobility Aids Grant Scheme, and Housing Aid for Older People Scheme. It is a matter for the Council to decide on the specific level of funding to be directed towards each of the schemes from within this allocation. To date €12,963 has been issued to Mayo County Council under the schemes.

My Department has received a request from Mayo County Council for additional funding under the Housing Adaptation Grants Schemes and the Council was recently notified of an additional Exchequer allocation of €350,000 towards the operation of these schemes this year. Allocations for 2009 can only be finalised after the publication of the 2009 Estimates.

Michael Ring (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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Question 1468: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the funding provided towards schemes (details supplied). [30464/08]

Michael Finneran (Roscommon-South Leitrim, Fianna Fail)
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Allocations to each local authority towards the operation of the revised suite of housing adaptation grant schemes — the Housing Adaptation Grant for People with a Disability, the Mobility Aids Grant Scheme and the Housing Aid for Older People Scheme and the processing of outstanding claims under the now discontinued Disabled Persons and Essential Repairs Grants schemes, are set out in the Table below.

The allocations made by my Department to local authorities for the operation of the schemes represent not capital grants, but the total amount which authorities are authorised to spend on the schemes, including from the resources of individual authorities. It is a matter for local authorities to decide on the specific level of funding to be directed towards each of the schemes, from within the combined allocation notified to them by my Department, and to manage the operation of the schemes in their area from within this allocation.

My Department has recently made supplementary Exchequer allocations to a number of local authorities; this information is also set out in the following table.