Seán Connick (Wexford, Fianna Fail)
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Question 256: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the position regarding an application for funding under the capital assistance scheme for voluntary housing associations from an organisation (details supplied) in County Wexford; when a decision on this application will be made; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43707/09]

Michael Finneran (Roscommon-South Leitrim, Fianna Fail)
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An application for funding under my Department's Capital Assistance Scheme for voluntary and co-operative housing was received from the organisation in question on the 20th November 2009. The application will be considered in the light of, inter alia, the estimates provision for new projects in 2010 and the relative priority afforded to the project by Wexford County Council.

Tom Hayes (Tipperary South, Fine Gael)
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Question 257: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if funding has been released to local authorities to pay for disabled persons grants in 2010; the amount of funding; if this will be sufficient to cover the backlog of these approved cases. [43716/09]

Michael Finneran (Roscommon-South Leitrim, Fianna Fail)
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Allocations totalling €79.562 million for 2009 were notified to local authorities under the Housing Adaptation Grant Scheme for Older People and People with a Disability, the Mobility Aids Grant Scheme and the older Disabled Persons and Essential Repairs Grant Schemes on 7 May 2009. Having regard to the continued priority which the Government attaches to these schemes and 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 26 local authorities on 12 October, 2009. Next year's allocations to local authorities will be determined in the context of, inter alia, the overall level of demand under the suite of Grants for Older People and People with a Disability and estimates provision for these grants in 2010.