Jennifer Murnane O'Connor (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail)
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259. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of a review of the grant schemes implemented by local authorities to ensure their alignment with policy objectives; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44580/21]

Duncan Smith (Dublin Fingal, Labour)
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303. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the position regarding the review of the housing adaption and housing aid grants from local authorities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45094/21]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 259 and 303 together.

Funding of €75 million is available nationally in 2021 for the Housing Adaptation Grants for Older People and People with a Disability Scheme. 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:

www.gov.ie/en/publication/ea33c1-housing-options-for-our-ageing-population-policy-statement/

As detailed in Housing for All, housing policy objectives 6 and 7 give a commitment to undertaking a review of the range of housing grants available to assist with meeting specific housing needs both for our ageing population and people with a disability. Officials from my Department will begin a review of the existing grant limits and income thresholds applicable to the grant schemes later this year.