Pearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein)
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1644. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the estimated cost of increasing central funding to the housing adaptation grant schemes by 50% in 2018. [35714/17]

Eoghan Murphy (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael)
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The funding allocation in 2017 for the Housing Adaptation Grants for Older People and People with a Disability is €59.8m, comprising €47.84m Exchequer funding and €11.96m from local authority resources. It represents an increase of some 6% on the previous year's allocation.  Increasing funding under this scheme by 50% would cost an additional €23.92m to the Exchequer, with a further €5.98m to be contributed by the local authorities.

I am conscious of the social benefit accruing from these Grants in terms of facilitating the continued independent living by older people and people with a disability in their own homes. In line with the Programme for a Partnership Government, further consideration will be given to increasing this funding over the coming years.