Emmet Stagg (Kildare North, Labour)
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Question 882: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the amount of funding sought in 2008 by each local authority under the mobility, housing adaption and housing aid for the elderly scheme; and the amount allocated. [11809/09]

Michael Finneran (Roscommon-South Leitrim, Fianna Fail)
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The Housing Adaptation Grant Schemes for Older People and People with a Disability are funded by 80% recoupment available from my Department together with a 20% contribution from the resources of the local authority. In the case of the old Disabled Persons and Essential Repairs Grant Schemes, these were funded by 67% recoupment available from my Department together with a 33% contribution from the resources of the local authority.

Total expenditure on the Housing Adaptation Grant Schemes for Older People and People with a Disability, and the Disabled Persons and Essential Repairs Grant Schemes, in 2008, amounted to €94.8 million. The total initial estimated demand by local authorities for the operation of the Housing Adaptation Grant Schemes for Older People and People with a Disability, and the Disabled Persons and Essential Repairs Grant Schemes, in 2008 was approximately €157.6 million. This estimate included applications that had been assessed as eligible, as well as applications which had not been assessed, and an estimate of the projected intake of new applications during 2008.

The total allocation to each local authority in respect of the schemes in 2008, along with the initial estimated demand by local authorities for the operation of the schemes in 2008, is set out in the following table.