Mick Wallace (Wexford, Independent)
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533. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to extend the housing adaptation grant for persons with a disability to include funding for equipment for the extended space such as sensory equipment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28837/18]

Eoghan Murphy (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael)
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The Housing Adaptation Grant for People with a Disability is available to assist in the carrying out of works which are reasonably necessary for the purposes of rendering a house more suitable for the accommodation of a person with a disability who has an enduring physical, sensory, mental health or intellectual impairment.

The detailed administration of the scheme, including the assessment, approval and payment of individual grants to applicants, is the responsibility of the relevant local authority. The types of works allowable under the scheme include the provision of extensions including for a sensory room, downstairs toilet facilities, stair-lifts, access ramps, accessible showers, adaptations to facilitate wheelchair access and any other works which are reasonably necessary. Currently, I have no plans to extend the housing adaptation grant to accommodate the full fit-out of the extended facilities.