Fergus O'Dowd (Louth, Fine Gael)
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624. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the moneys allocated to all local authorities for the purpose of housing adaptation grants and mobility aid grants for persons with a disability and housing aid for older people over the past three years; the value of moneys returned to the Government from local authorities under the same schemes that were unspent over the same time period.; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25792/16]

Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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Information on the funding spent by each local authority under the Housing Adaptation Grants for Older People and People with a Disability for the years 2013, 2014 and 2015 is available on my Department’s website at the following link : .

Information on the funding allocated to each local authority by my Department under the se Grants for those years is set out in the table.

My Department works closely with the local authorities to achieve a full drawdown of their allocations and there is careful scrutiny of spend,as each year progresses. This normally results in any underspend by particular local authorities being redistributed to those local authorities with high levels of grant activity who sought additional funding.