Written answers

Wednesday, 4 February 2015

Department of Environment, Community and Local Government

Housing Adaptation Grant Funding

Photo of Richard Boyd BarrettRichard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance)
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166. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide details of funding to Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council for the adaptation of council homes for tenants with disabilities; and his views on whether the funding is adequate, considering a tenant who applied for a walk-in shower, with all supporting occupational therapy documentation in July 2014, cannot be put on the works-list until 2016, at the earliest. [5130/15]

Photo of Alan KellyAlan Kelly (Tipperary North, Labour)
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My Department allocates funding to local authorities towards the cost of adaptations and extensions to social housing to meet needs of tenants with a disability or to address serious overcrowding. Funding from my Department meets 90% of costs, with each local authority providing the remaining 10%. In 2014, funding of €373,599 was provided to Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council under this programme. My Department is currently awaiting information from local authorities in relation to requirements for 2015 ahead of new allocations being made. All aspects of the administration of this funding locally is a matter for each local authority, including decisions in relation to the projects to be implemented.

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