Pa Daly (Kerry, Sinn Fein)
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711. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will consider developing a grant scheme for CO2 monitors in private homes. [40588/21]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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My Department provides exchequer funding to local authorities to support the Housing Adaptation Grant for Older People and People with a Disability scheme, in respect of private houses.  These grants are available to assist in the carrying out of works which are reasonably necessary for the purposes of rendering a house more suitable for the accommodation of a person with a disability who has an enduring physical, sensory, mental health or intellectual impairment. 

The detailed administration of the grants, including the assessment, approval and payment of individual grants to applicants, is the responsibility of the relevant local authority. The types of works allowable under the scheme include the provision or adaptation of rooms, for example downstairs toilet facilities or a sensory space, and the provision of stair-lifts, access ramps, accessible showers, adaptations to facilitate wheelchair access or other works which are reasonably necessary. The scheme also provides grant funding for the installation of smoke/heat and carbon monoxide detectors.

Funding is not currently available for the provision of CO2 monitors. My Department has no immediate plans to develop a grant scheme for the provision of CO2 monitors but will keep the matter under review.