Written answers

Wednesday, 20 April 2016

Department of Social Protection

Housing Adaptation Grant

Photo of Richard Boyd BarrettRichard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance)
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88. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the help in place for those who receive a grant for house adaptations but cannot afford the balance themselves. [7762/16]

Photo of Kevin HumphreysKevin Humphreys (Dublin South East, Labour)
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The means tested housing adaptation grant for people with a disability and local authority home improvement loans, for persons who cannot get a loan from a bank or building society, are provided by local authorities and come within the remit of the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government.

This Department’s Exceptional Needs Payment (ENP) scheme is not intended to cover circumstances where responsibility for the expenditure rests with another Government Department or Agency.

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