Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein)
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525. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the budget spent, unspent and or allocated to date in 2018 for housing adaptations for older persons and persons with a disability living in private houses by county in tabular form. [38436/18]

Eoghan Murphy (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael)
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My Department provides funding under the suite of Housing Adaptation Grant Schemes for Older People and People with a Disability, in respect of private housing. The schemes are 80% funded by my Department, with a 20% contribution from the local authorities.

For 2018, the financial provision for the Schemes is €66.25 million, comprising €53 million exchequer funding and €13.25 million from local authority resources, an increase of some 11% on 2017. Funding for these schemes has been increasing year on year since 2014 and 9,080 households benefitted in 2017, with 10,000 expected to benefit in 2018.

Over the course of the year, my Department works closely with the local authorities to monitor spend and to achieve a full drawdown of the available funding. This allows any underspends to be redistributed to local authorities with high levels of grant activity who seek additional funding.

The following table contains details of the 2018 allocations and expenditure to date for each local authority: