Jack Wall (Kildare South, Labour)
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Question 1043: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if local authorities have been notified by him as to the funding allocated by his Department to each local authority that they can draw down in relation to grants (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2638/09]

Seán Sherlock (Cork East, Labour)
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Question 1103: 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 for the disabled persons grant, the housing aid for older people and housing adaptation grant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1853/09]

David Stanton (Cork East, Fine Gael)
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Question 1114: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the funding he will make available to the local authorities in relation to the various disabled persons grant schemes administered by the local authorities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2294/09]

Emmet Stagg (Kildare North, Labour)
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Question 1116: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the amount of funding allocated for housing adaptation, mobility aids and housing aid for the elderly grants to Kildare County Council in 2008 and 2009. [2443/09]

Michael Finneran (Roscommon-South Leitrim, Fianna Fail)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 1043, 1103, 1114 and 1116 together.

The Housing Adaptation Grant Schemes for Older People and People with a Disability are funded by 80% recoupment available from my Department together with 20% contribution from the resources of the local authority. In the case of the Disabled Persons and Essential Repairs Grant Schemes, my Department recoups two thirds of the cost of individual grants paid, with the remaining one third being provided by the local authority. It is a matter for each local authority 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 areas from within this allocation.

Local authorities will be notified of their capital allocations for 2009 in respect of the Housing Adaptation Grant Schemes for Older People and People with a Disability, following the publication of the Revised Estimates for Public Services 2009.

Total expenditure by Kildare County Council, in 2008, in respect of the Housing Adaptation Grant Schemes for Older People and People with a Disability was €2,717,064, as follows: