Niamh Smyth (Cavan-Monaghan, Fianna Fail)
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739. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the financial assistance by way of grants or schemes for persons (details supplied) to enhance and improve their home; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42242/17]

Eoghan Murphy (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael)
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My Department funds a range of housing supports for persons with a disability, living in both privately owned housing and local authority housing. Applications in all cases are made to the local authority.

The Disabled Person Grant Scheme provides funds to local authorities to undertake adaptations and extensions to homes to meet the needs of local authority tenants with a disability, or to address serious overcrowding. The Housing Adaptation Grant Scheme for Older People and People with a Disability is also delivered by local authorities with funding from my Department. It assists people with a disability in private houses to have necessary adaptations, repairs or improvement works carried out in order to make their accommodation more suitable for their needs. There are no restrictions on the type of disability covered by the schemes and the administration of the available funding is a matter for the local authorities based on their assessment of priority and need at the time.