Joe Carey (Clare, Fine Gael)
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Question 507: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will provide the necessary funding for elderly and disabled housing adaption grant applications to Clare County Council due to the fact that the delay in receiving payment is causing hardship; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37350/09]

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 initial 2009 combined allocation to Clare County Council, incorporating the Exchequer contribution and the co-funding provided by the Council, amounted to €1,490,000, an increase of almost 14% on the 2008 initial allocation of €1,308,060.

Following an evaluation of the ongoing level of demand for grants, the level of expenditure to date and the capacity of local authorities to process and approve additional applications in the current year, I approved a supplementary allocation of approximately €12.5 million to some twenty eight local authorities on 12 October, 2009. The combined supplementary allocation for Clare County Council is €663,750.