Written answers

Thursday, 24 September 2015

Department of Environment, Community and Local Government

Housing Adaptation Grant Funding

Photo of Billy KelleherBilly Kelleher (Cork North Central, Fianna Fail)
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213. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide, by local authority, for each year from 2008 to 2014, in tabular form, the average amount paid for a housing adaptation grant; the number of payments that were less than 50% of the average; and the number that 50% more than the average. [32654/15]

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. The administration of the scheme is a matter for individual local authorities and therefore information in relation to the cost of individual projects in respect of adaptations to local authority housing is not available in my Department. My Department also allocates funding to local authorities for three separate schemes under the suite of Housing Adaptation Grants for Older People and People with a Disability (Private Houses) - the Housing Adaptation Grant for People with a Disability, the Mobility Aids Grant and the Housing Aid for Older People. The average grants paid for the three schemes are in the table below.

The detailed administration of these schemes is the responsibility of the local authorities and detail in relation to the numbers of grants above and below the average is not available in my Department.

Average Grant Paid 2008-2014

Housing Adaptation - € Housing Aid for Older People - € Mobility Aid - €
2008 9,678 4,462 3,475
2009 9,610 4,505 3,305
2010 9,181 4,245 3,285
2011 8,473 4,164 3,230
2012 8,467 4,107 3,274
2013 8,334 3,995 3,283
2014 7,930 3,714 3,234

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