Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein)
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290. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the allocation and drawdown of housing adaptation grants in 2020 and to date in 2021; and the projected increase in funding for 2022 and 2023. [32891/21]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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Funding of €75 million is available nationally in 2021 for the Housing Adaptation Grants for Older People and People with a Disability scheme, in respect of private houses. Local authorities fund 20% of the overall budget from their own resources with the balance of 80% funded by the exchequer. This funding has increased year on year since 2014.  As part of the annual budgetary process, consideration will be given to this funding in future years in line with the Programme for Government commitments and the Policy Statement on Housing Options for Our Ageing Population, which is available on my Department's website at the following link:

Funding allocations for 2020 and 2021 is publicly available on my Department’s website at the following links:

For 2020:

For 2021:

Details of the funding drawn down for the grants up to 2020, 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 following table contains details of the 2021 exchequer funding drawn down by local authorities for housing adaptation grants up to 31 May 2021.