Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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Question 213: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when funding of the disability extension scheme will be made available to Cork City Council for local authority housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23561/09]

Michael Finneran (Roscommon-South Leitrim, Fianna Fail)
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In accordance with the arrangements set out in my Department's Circular Letter N16/06, Housing Management Initiative - Direct Control for Local Authorities over Internal Capital Receipts, responsibility for carrying out works to local authority dwellings to meet the needs of disabled persons resides with individual local authorities. Since 1 January 2007, local authorities have direct control over Internal Capital Receipts received from the sale of local authority dwellings, to be used primarily for planned maintenance programmes and the improvement of housing stock, including the provision of necessary adaptations or extensions for people with a disability.

In the case of grants for adaptations or extensions to private housing, allocations totalling €2,112,500 for 2009 were notified to Cork City Council under the Housing Adaptation Grant Schemes for Older People and People with a Disability, the Mobility Aids Grant Scheme and the old Disabled Persons and Essential Repairs Grant Schemes on 7 May 2009.