Pádraic McCormack (Galway West, Fine Gael)
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Question 856: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when the Health Service Executive west will be allocated the necessary additional funding in order to pay the many housing repair schemes which have been sanctioned and completed but where the grants have not been paid in Galway City and county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11194/09]

Michael Finneran (Roscommon-South Leitrim, Fianna Fail)
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The allocations to The Health Service Executive under the Special Housing Aid for The Elderly Scheme (SHAE) are determined by a Task Force, which operates under the aegis of my Department. While the scheme has been closed to new applicants since 1 August 2008, having been replaced by the Housing Aid for Older People Scheme, the HSE is continuing to process applications on hand at that stage. Allocations under the SHAE in 2009, which will be finalised shortly, are being considered in the light of the number and value of remaining applications on hand.

Funding is provided to the HSE on a regional basis and it is a matter for the HSE to apportion funding within regions.