Gerry Adams (Louth, Sinn Fein)
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Question 304: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the total amount of funding that was made available for the capital assistance scheme that approved housing bodies could avail of when developing housing in 2007 to 2011, inclusive; the amount that will be available in 2012; and in each of the years mentioned the amount of the funding that was given to groups dealing with domestic violence such as women's refuges. [32398/11]

Willie Penrose (Longford-Westmeath, Labour)
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Under the Capital Assistance Scheme (CAS), funding of up to 100% of the approved cost is available for the provision of accommodation to meet the needs of persons with specific categories of housing need including older people, people with an intellectual, physical or mental health disability, the homeless, returning emigrants and victims of domestic violence.

The administration of the scheme, including the nomination of tenants from the local authority housing list, is the responsibility of the relevant housing authority. Given that individual approved housing bodies may cater for a range of special housing need and considering that the accommodation provided by these bodies under the CAS may be multi-purpose, it is not possible to disaggregate the expenditure figures to provide information in relation to any specific category of tenant such as victims of domestic violence.

The information requested in relation to the funding provided under the Capital Assistance Scheme over the period 2007 to date is set out in the following table:

The capital allocation for the CAS in 2012 will be determined as soon as possible following the conclusion of the estimates process.