Martin Browne (Tipperary, Sinn Fein)
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150. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount that has been made available for housing adaptation grants for older people in each of the years since 2016 to date; the amount that was availed of in each year by county; the amount remaining for the scheme in 2020; if funding will be affected due to the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19392/20]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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Details of Housing Adaptation Grants for Older People and People with a Disability, up to 2018, are available on my Department's website at the following link:

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The following table contains details of the exchequer funding drawn down by local authorities for the grants up to 31 December 2019, and up to 30 June 2020. Each local authority provides an additional 20% own contribution.

For 2020, a total of €73.75 million has been provided for the Scheme. The level of funding available under the Scheme has not been impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic but programmes at local level may have been impacted by Covid-19 restrictions.

Martin Browne (Tipperary, Sinn Fein)
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151. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the concerns regarding the way in which funding is being provided for private nursing home admissions rather than providing 100% home adaptation grants, which could assist persons to continue living in their own homes; his views on the cost benefits of providing 100% home adaptation grants as an alternative to avoidable nursing home admissions; his plans to introduce a 100% home adaptation grant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19393/20]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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The Housing Adaptation Grants for Older People and People with a Disability currently provides up to 95% grant funding under the Scheme. The Scheme facilitates older people and people with a disability to remain living independently in their own homes.

Funding of €73.75 million is available nationally in 2020 and has been increasing year on year since 2014. As part of the annual budgetary process, consideration will be given to funding in future years in line with the Policy Statement on Housing Options for Our Ageing Population, which is available on my Department's website at the following link: .