Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance)
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256. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to whether councils sent incorrect guidelines relating to assessment for the housing adaptation grant for people with a disability scheme; the number of persons who could be affected across all local authorities; the amount potentially denied to applicants across all local authorities due to councils not applying the correct rules to means testing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4803/19]

Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance)
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257. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason councils were issued incorrect guidelines relating to assessment for the housing adaptation grant for people with a disability scheme; the number of persons who could be affected by all local authorities; the estimated number that could have been denied by local authorities nationally due to councils not applying the correct rules on means testing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4849/19]

Eoghan Murphy (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 256 and 257 together.

The issues raised by the Deputy are being followed up and a reply will be forwarded in accordance with Standing Orders.