Jack Wall (Kildare South, Labour)
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Question 189: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the associations a person (details supplied) in County Kildare can contact to resolve their concerns; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40470/08]

John Curran (Dublin Mid 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 operates locally through community groups.

My Department has been in contact with the local community group operating the Scheme in the South Kildare area and they have undertaken to make direct contact with the person in question to discuss their needs.