Michael Healy-Rae (Kerry South, Independent)
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To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government in view of the fact that Kerry County Council received a cut of 56% in the funding being made available for its housing aid grants, mobility aids grants and housing adoptions grants, if he will ensure that a top off is given, as a matter of urgency, for particular cases that need bathrooms, showers and so on installed in their homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17631/13]

Jan O'Sullivan (Limerick City, Labour)
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On 22 February 2013, I announced capital allocations to local authorities under the suite of Grants for Older People and People with a Disability amounting to €42.750 million. This year I allocated local authorities the full amount of their contractual commitments which, in the case of Kerry County Council, amounted to €838,493.The balance of the available funding was allocated on the basis of each authority’ s share of the new applications on hand in January 2013. This brought Kerry County Council’s overall allocation to €1,445,971.

I have set aside a small capital reserve to deal with any acute or particular difficulty which might arise in the operation of the schemes over the course of the year. I am now considering applications from a number of local authorities for a supplementary allocation , including an application from Kerry County Council .