Robert Troy (Longford-Westmeath, Fianna Fail)
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Question 517: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will make additional funding available to Westmeath County Council for grant aid in respect of housing aid for the elderly, housing adaption grants and mobility aid grant. [36436/12]

Jan O'Sullivan (Limerick City, Labour)
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Exchequer allocations totalling over €54 million were notified to local authorities in respect of the Housing Adaptation Grant Schemes on 28 February 2012. Of this, some €790,524 was allocated to Westmeath County Council. To date €95,315.20 or 12% of this has been drawn down by Westmeath County Council, facilitating the payment of 31 grants.

My Department monitors expenditure under these schemes on an ongoing basis and any savings, resulting from an under-spend by local authorities of their 2012 allocation, will be made available for re-allocation to authorities whose allocations have been fully spent. To date there has been no request from Westmeath County Council for additional funding under the grant schemes.