Deirdre Clune (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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Question 496: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the level of funding he has provided to support the disabled persons grant scheme in 2007, 2008 and 2009; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18016/09]

Michael Finneran (Roscommon-South Leitrim, Fianna Fail)
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Information on local authority activity under the former Disabled Persons Grant Scheme in 2007 is published in my Department's Annual Housing Statistics Bulletin for that year, copies of which are available in the Oireachtas Library and on my Department's website, www.environ.ie. Details of the overall expenditure by local authorities in 2008 under the new Housing Adaptation Grant Scheme for People with a Disability and the old Disabled Persons Grant schemes, are set out in the following table.

I refer to the reply to Questions Nos. 473, 491, 495, 467 and 468 on today's Order Paper, giving details of the 2009 allocations to local authorities under the revised suite of grants to adapt housing for the needs of older people and people with a disability. It will be a matter for local authorities to decide how their overall allocation will be apportioned between the various grant schemes, having regard to local circumstances.