Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail)
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290. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the grant schemes available for persons to improve heating systems in their houses that are available through his Department or funded by his Department through local authorities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30524/16]

Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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The only scheme my Department funds through local authorities that may, depending on the circumstances, provide funding for heating systems in private housing is the Housing Aid for Older People scheme. This scheme provides grants of up to €8,000 to assist older people living in poor housing conditions to have necessary repairs or improvements carried out to private houses. Eligible works under the scheme include the provision of heating where the household has no current heating system; however, it does not provide for the upgrading of an existing central heating system.