Seán Sherlock (Cork East, Labour)
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Question 1492: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when funding will be granted to Cork County Council to enable the processing of grant applications which are at a complete standstill due to a lack of funding for schemes (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31222/08]

Seán Sherlock (Cork East, Labour)
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Question 1493: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number of disabled persons grants, housing aid grants and housing aid for older people grants that have been cancelled or suspended within the Cork County Council area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31223/08]

Michael Finneran (Roscommon-South Leitrim, Fianna Fail)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 1492 and 1493 together.

As previously indicated to local authorities, requests for additional funding under the Housing Adaptation Grants Schemes for Older People and People with a Disability are dealt with in the context of the reallocation of any surplus resources arising elsewhere. In this context, my Department has advised all local authorities to monitor their expenditure under the Schemes carefully. A number of the authorities faced with particularly significant levels of demand under the schemes so far this year received notification recently of supplementary allocations. While Cork County Council was not among those authorities, the issue of an additional allocation to the Council will be considered in the event of further funding becoming available.

My Department does not have data concerning grants which have been cancelled or suspended within the Cork County Council area.