Michael Healy-Rae (Kerry South, Independent)
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536. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when funding that is required for disabled persons’ grants and elderly persons’ grants will be made available to local authorities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17465/15]

Alan Kelly (Tipperary North, Labour)
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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. The 2015 allocations are currently under consideration in my Department and will issue to local authorities very shortly.