Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein)
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609. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount of funding allocated to local authorities for disability grants, mobility grants and adaptation grants in each of the years 2006 to 2017, in tabular form. [22535/18]

Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein)
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610. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount of funding allocated to local authorities under the improvement works in lieu of housing scheme in each of the years 2006 to 2017, in tabular form. [22536/18]

Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein)
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611. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount of funding allocated to local authorities under the extensions to local authority housing scheme in each of the years 2006 to 2017, in tabular form. [22537/18]

Eoghan Murphy (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 609 to 611, inclusive, together.

The Housing Adaptation Grant Schemes for Older People and People with a Disability were introduced on 1 November 2007. The schemes provide a range of grants for necessary improvement works or adaptations to houses in order to facilitate the continued independent occupancy of their own homes by older people and people with a disability.

Information on Exchequer funding provided by my Department to each local authority for these schemes for the years up to 2017 is available on my Department’s website at the following link: . Details of the allocations for 2018 are available at the following link: .

Under the Disabled Persons Grants (DPGs) scheme, my Department also provides local authorities with capital funding for adaptations and extensions to existing social housing stock to meet the needs of local authority tenants. The scheme applies to adaptations that are necessary to address the needs of older people or people with a disability who may require stair-lifts; grab-rails; showers; wet-rooms and ramps etc. It also provides funding for extensions such as the installation of a downstairs bedroom or bathroom or in the case of overcrowding. Under the DPG scheme, funding is also provided to Local Authorities for Improvement Works In Lieu (IWILs) to enable them to repair, improve or extend privately owned houses that are occupied by approved housing applicants as an alternative to the provision of Local Authority housing.

Funding provided by my Department from 2006-2017 in respect of the DPG Adaptations/DPG Extensions/IWIL schemes is set out in the table.