Tommy Broughan (Dublin North East, Independent)
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926. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the amount his Department provided to Dublin City Council under the housing adaptation grants for older persons with a disability, in the years 2012 to 2014, inclusive, and in 2015 to date, and if there will be a supplementary estimate for this programme in view of the two-year waiting list at Dublin City Council, for example. [12167/15]

Paudie Coffey (Waterford, Fine Gael)
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Funding provided by my Department to Dublin City Council for the suite of Housing Adaptation Grants for Older People and People with a Disability is available on my Department's website at the following link:

by selecting ‘Social and Affordable Housing’, ‘Housing Adaptation Grants by Area 2008 to date’.

Exchequer funding of over €37 million was provided by my Department to local authorities in 2014 for the Housing Adaptation Grants for Older People and People with a Disability. Combined with an additional 20% contribution by individual local authorities, there was an overall spend last year of €46.3 million in this area. I am pleased to confirm that the 2015 amount will increase by some 10% to give a combined spend of €50.5 million. Individual allocations will be made to local authorities shortly.

Dublin City Council’s full 2014 allocation for these grants was €5,821,222, made up of €4,656,977 allocated from my Department along with a further €1,164,244 which was to be provided from the Council’s own resources. In 2014 Dublin City Council recouped €3,030,439 out of the €4,656,977 available from my Department.