Emmet Stagg (Kildare North, Labour)
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Question 84: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will allocate additional funding to Kildare County Council to enable it to deal with the large backlog in housing adaption grants for the disabled, mobility grants, and housing assistance for the elderly. [31888/09]

Michael Finneran (Roscommon-South Leitrim, Fianna Fail)
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Allocations totalling €79.562 million for 2009 were notified to local authorities on 7 May 2009 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. The 2009 allocation to Kildare County Council amounts to €1,870,000 compared to an initial allocation of €1,642,680 in 2008, an increase of almost 14%. I will review the funding position in the event of any under-spend by local authorities of their allocations for the grant schemes or other allocations under the wider social housing investment programme.