Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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Question 165: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the total number of applications for disabled persons grants currently before the various local authorities; the extent to which he intends to provide the necessary funding for all such applications in the current year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16264/10]

Michael Finneran (Roscommon-South Leitrim, Fianna Fail)
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On the basis of the most recent returns from local authorities, some 13,012 applications have been submitted for approval under the suite of Housing Adaptation Grant Schemes for Older People and People with a Disability. Some 4,437 of these relate to adaptation works to meet the needs of persons with a disability.

Allocations totalling almost €100 million for 2010 were notified to local authorities on 5 March under the grant schemes. It is a matter for each local authority to decide on the specific level of funding to be directed to each of the various grant measures from within the allocations notified to them by my Department and to manage the operation of the schemes in their areas from within their allocation.