Kevin O'Keeffe (Cork East, Fianna Fail)
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635. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when funding for the housing adaptation grants for people with a disability will issue to each local authority in respect of 2018 allocations. [5852/18]

Eoghan Murphy (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael)
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Notification of the 2018 funding allocations to local authorities will issue shortly in respect of the Housing Adaptation Grants for Older People and People with a Disability (private houses) and also in respect of the Adaptations and Extensions to Social Housing Stock - Disabled Persons Grants, Extensions and Improvement Works in Lieu (IWILS).

Ahead of the notification of these allocations, work in respect of these programmes can continue. All local authorities may commit up to 65% of their 2017 allocation in approving applications for 2018. This interim funding provision will comfortably allow local authorities to advance work under these programmes for the early part of this year, pending full year allocations for 2018 being confirmed shortly.