Pauline Tully (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein)
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403. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of applications that have been made in each of the past five years for the housing adaptation grant for persons with a disability in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26612/21]

Pauline Tully (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein)
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404. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of persons that successfully applied for the housing adaptation grant for persons with a disability in each of the past five years in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26613/21]

Pauline Tully (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein)
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405. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of persons that unsuccessfully applied for the housing adaptation grant for persons with a disability in each of the past five years categorised by the criteria under which they were turned down in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26614/21]

Pauline Tully (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein)
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406. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the average waiting time to process an application for the housing adaptation grant for persons with a disability in each of the past five years in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26615/21]

Pauline Tully (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein)
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407. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the average waiting time for payment of the housing adaptation grant for persons with a disability in the past five years in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26616/21]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 403, 404, 405, 406 and 407 together.

My Department provides funding under the suite of Housing Adaptation Grants for Older People and People with a Disability, to assist people in private houses to make their accommodation more suitable for their needs.  Details on the number of grants paid and the amount spent for the past five years by all local authorities, are available on my Department's website at the following link: 

https://www.housing.gov.ie/housing/statistics/social-and-affordble/other-local-authority-housing-scheme-statistics. 

The detailed administration of the grants including their assessment, approval and prioritisation, is the responsibility of local authorities. My Department does not hold information in relation to the number of unsuccessful applications or the relevant application/payment processing times for individual local authorities.  This information may be available directly from the local authorities.

Pauline Tully (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein)
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408. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if avenues are open to persons who have been successful in their application for the housing adaptation grant but do not have access to the bridging finance necessary to get the work completed to allow the grant to be drawn down; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26617/21]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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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 adaptations to private houses. The detailed administration of the schemes, including the assessment, approval and payment of individual grants to applicants, is the responsibility of the relevant local authority.

Local authorities, in administering the scheme, should work with qualifying applicants to ensure they get the most beneficial outcome possible in line with their financial circumstances.  Once works have been completed and the contractor issues the relevant invoice, local authorities should ensure swift payment of grant funding to the applicant, provided the approved works are completed.