Mary Butler (Waterford, Fianna Fail)
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289. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the names of the local authorities that have undertaken adaptations and extensions to their existing social housing network in each of the years 2010 to 2016; the number of adaptations and extensions that were actually undertaken; and the value of those works for each local authority applicable, in tabular form. [30608/17]

Eoghan Murphy (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael)
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My Department provides capital funding to all Local Authorities to undertake adaptations and extensions to their existing social housing stock under the Disabled Persons Grant (DPG) Scheme. The scheme applies to extensions that are needed to address over-crowding (families who outgrow their current dwelling) and the needs of older people or people with a disability, who may require stairlifts or the installation of a downstairs bedroom or bathroom.

The funding provided for this scheme is supplemented by the Local Authorities’ Internal Capital receipts and/or Local Property Tax, where relevant. In this regard, no Exchequer funding was provided for the scheme to Dun Laoghaire Rathdown and South Dublin County Councils in 2015 and Fingal and Galway County Councils in 2016, as they used Local Property Tax receipts to fund any works.

The programme is operated on the basis of annual funding allocations to each local authority and it is a matter for each local authority to assess the specific needs in its area and to identify and prioritise the works necessary to meet those needs.  The Department does not hold detailed information on individual works carried out for the period in question but information on their DPG programmes should be available from individual Local Authorities.

Details of the funding provided from 2010-2016 in respect of the DPG scheme are set out in the following table.