John O'Mahony (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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Question 305: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 241 of 11 February 2009 when funds will be allocated to local authorities for the housing aid in respect of old people, the housing adaption grant and the mobility aids grant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14619/09]

John O'Mahony (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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Question 306: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number of applications in County Mayo waiting for funding under the housing aid for older people, the housing adaption grant and the mobility aids grant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14620/09]

John O'Mahony (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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Question 307: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the amount of funding allocated to each local authority in 2006, 2007 and 2008 to fund the housing aid for older people, the housing adaption grant and the mobility aids grant in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14621/09]

Michael Finneran (Roscommon-South Leitrim, Fianna Fail)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 305 to 307, inclusive, together.

Allocations to individual local authorities under the Housing Adaptation Grant Schemes for Older People and People with a Disability will be announced following the publication of the Revised Estimates of Public Expenditure 2009.

My Department's involvement with these schemes relates primarily to the recoupment of a proportion of local authority expenditure on the payment of individual grants. The Housing Adaptation Grant Schemes for Older People and People with a Disability, introduced in November 2007, 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 are funded by 67% recoupment available from my Department together with a 33% contribution from the resources of the local authority. The detailed administration of the schemes, including the assessment and approval of applications, is the responsibility of the relevant local authority.

The number of applications on hand in Mayo County Council at end December 2008, representing the most recent data notified to my Department, is set out in the following table.

Information on local authority activity under the Disabled Persons' and Essential Repairs Grant Schemes in 2006 and 2007 is published in my Department's Annual Housing Statistics Bulletins, copies of which are available in the Oireachtas Library and on my Department's website, www.environ.ie. Details of total expenditure by each local authority in 2008 under these schemes and the new Housing Adaptation Grant Schemes for Older People and People with a Disability are set out in the following table.