Robert Troy (Longford-Westmeath, Fianna Fail)
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184. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when he will allocate the much needed funding to Westmeath County Council for housing grants. [19191/13]

Phil Hogan (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fine Gael)
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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 Westmeath County Council, amounted to €47,803. 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 Westmeath County Council’s overall allocation to €435,722. On 22 April I announced a supplementary allocation of €1.2m to 13 Local Authorities which included €145,844 for Westmeath County Council bringing their overall allocation to €581,566.