Barry Cowen (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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111. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide a county breakdown of the amount of money spent and units upgraded under the mobility aids grant scheme in 2010, 2011, 2012 and to date in 2013. [48482/13]

Barry Cowen (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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112. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide a county breakdown of the amount of money spent and units upgraded under the housing aid for older persons scheme in 2010, 2011, 2012 and to date in 2013. [48483/13]

Jan O'Sullivan (Limerick City, Labour)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 111 and 112 together.

My Department’s involvement with the Housing Adaptation Grant Schemes for Older People and People with a Disability relates primarily to the recoupment of a proportion of local authority expenditure on the payment of individual grants. These schemes, introduced in November 2007, are funded by 80% recoupments available from my Department together with a 20% contribution from the resources of the local authority. The detailed administration of these schemes, including the apportionment of funding between the various grant measures and the assessment, approval and payment of grants to individual applicants under the various grant measures, is the responsibility of the relevant local authority.

Details of the numbers of grants paid each year together with the monies recouped to the local authorities since 2010 in respect the Housing Aid for Older People (HAOP) and the Mobility Aids Grant (MAG) are set out in the following tables:

20102011

20112013 (to end October)