Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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355. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total drawdown of housing adaptation grants per annum from 2016 to 2018 and to date in 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48100/19]

Eoghan Murphy (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael)
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My Department provides funding to local authorities for the suite of Housing Adaptation Grants for Older People and People with a Disability in respect of private houses, with funding of €71.25 million allocated for 2019. 

Information for the years 2016-2018, showing the numbers of grants funded and the amounts provided to each local authority, is available on my Department’s website at the following link: http://www.housing.gov.ie/housing/statistics/social-and-affordble/other-local-authority-housing-scheme-statistics. 

The following table contains details of the 2019 exchequer funding drawn down by local authorities for the grants up to 8 November 2019. These amounts do not necessarily represent what each local authority has spent, as funding may have been spent but not yet claimed from my Department.  Also, the amounts shown for exchequer draw down, are topped up by each local authority's own 20% contribution.

Over the course of each year, my Department works closely with all local authorities, to monitor spend and to achieve a full drawdown of the available funding. As the year progresses, any underspend is redistributed to those local authorities with high levels of grant activity who sought additional funding.