Colm Burke (Cork North Central, Fine Gael)
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317. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the engagement he has had with local authorities regarding their share of the funding for grant schemes to support persons with a disability and older persons to carry out adaptation works to their homes and the operation of such schemes to ensure as many persons as possible benefit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23194/21]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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In respect of the Disabled Persons Grants Scheme for Local Authority Tenants, all local authorities were asked to submit details of their work proposals and related funding requirements for 2021. These work proposals are being evaluated and the individual funding allocations for 2021 will issue shortly. In the interim, in order to avoid any delay in undertaking works, local authorities were advised earlier this year that they could proceed with works of up to the value of 65% of their 2020 allocation.

Separately, funding allocations for 2021 under the Housing Adaptation Grants for Older People and People with a Disability Scheme, for private houses, were issued to all local authorities on 1 March and are publicly available on my Department’s website at the following link: