Jackie Cahill (Tipperary, Fianna Fail)
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198. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if grants are available for the replacement of windows and doors in an old farmhouse to ensure it is weatherproof for the winter months; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49291/22]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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My Department provides funding for the Housing Adaptation Grant for Older People and People with a Disability scheme, which is a range of grants for necessary improvement works or adaptations to houses, in order to facilitate the continued independent occupancy of their own homes by older people and people with a disability. These schemes cover works reasonably necessary for the purposes of rendering a house more suitable for the accommodation of applicants, and could in those circumstances include the repair or replacement of windows and doors.

The schemes are administered by local authorities and details of the application process can be found on my Department's website at the following link:

www.gov.ie/en/service/6636c-housing-adaptation-grants-for-older-people-and-people-with-a-disability/

My Department also oversees a number of schemes to assist in the conservation of protected and other eligible structures, which may include repairs to windows and doors. These schemes are the Built Heritage Investment Scheme and the Historic Structures Fund. The schemes are administered through the local authorities and details are available at the following link:

www.gov.ie/en/publication/32ae3-financial-assistance-for-architectural-heritage/