Written answers

Tuesday, 7 October 2008

Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs

Care of the Elderly

9:00 pm

Photo of Joan BurtonJoan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)
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Question 168: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs his views on a grant in respect of house alarms for older people in view of the success of socially monitored alarms and the need for the older population here to feel secure in their homes. [33500/08]

Photo of John CurranJohn Curran (Dublin Mid West, Fianna Fail)
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The Community Support for Older People Scheme is managed by my Department and is administered locally by community and voluntary groups. The Scheme provides grants to support the installation of socially monitored personal alarms, smoke alarms, external lighting and essential items of physical security such as window and door locks and door chains. Interior emergency lighting is funded for qualifying older people living on our offshore islands.

While the type and variety of equipment eligible for grant support is kept under constant review, I have no proposals at this time to extend the Scheme to provide for household alarm systems, security cameras or to subsidise the monitoring costs of alarms.

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