Tom Fleming (Kerry South, Independent)
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396. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will review Kerry County Council's 2013 housing grant allocation that has been reduced by a massive 56% on the 2012 allocation; if he will allocate additional funding to County Kerry and take into consideration the huge volume of priority one applications that cannot now be processed due to the cuts in funding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33384/13]

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, and 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. Kerry County Council was allocated €1,445,971.

A small capital reserve was set aside to deal with any acute or particular difficulty which might arise in the operation of the schemes over the course of the year. Following requests from 13 local authorities for supplementary funding, I subsequently approved additional allocations totalling €1.2 million. Kerry County Council applied for additional funding from this reserve and was notified on 22 April 2013 of a supplementary allocation of €114,693, bringing the Council’s overall allocation for 2013 to € 1,560,664. I am continuing to keep the position in regard to funding under active review.