Robert Troy (Longford-Westmeath, Fianna Fail)
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464. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will clarify whether a person who suffers from an illness such as COPD can be considered for a housing adaption grant for people with a disability to replace windows at a property if there is sufficient medical evidence to support an application. [63214/22]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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The Housing Adaptation Grant for Older People and People with a Disability scheme provides 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.

The schemes are administered by local authorities. It is a matter for each local authority to determine how the funding is apportioned between the various grant measures and to manage the operation of the schemes in their areas from within the capital allocations provided by my Department.