Alan Kelly (Tipperary North, Labour)
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115. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount of funding his Department provided for the housing adaptation grants for older people and people with disabilities in the years of 2024 and 2025, in tabular form. [34734/25]

James Browne (Wexford, Fianna Fail)
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My Department provides Exchequer funding to local authorities to administer the suite of Housing Adaptation Grants for Older People and Disabled People, which support older and disabled people living in private houses to adapt their home to meet their needs. The suite of grants, which include the Housing Adaptation Grant for Disabled People, the Mobility Aids Grant and the Housing Aid for Older People Grant, are funded by my Department with a contribution from the resources of the local authority.

In 2024 Exchequer funding of €74.5 million was initially allocated for the suite of Housing Adaptation Grants for Older People and Disabled People. Additional funding was secured for the scheme through Supplementary Estimate of €8 million resulting in an Exchequer funding provision of over €82 million. Budget 2025 provided for an increase of €25m in the funding provision for the Housing Adaptation Grants for Older People and Disabled People, with almost €100 million allocated for 2025, continuing the year on year increases since 2014.

Rory Hearne (Dublin North-West, Social Democrats)
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116. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of units provided under the CAS for care leavers scheme in 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34751/25]

Rory Hearne (Dublin North-West, Social Democrats)
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117. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the funding provided for the CAS for care leavers scheme in 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34752/25]

James Browne (Wexford, Fianna Fail)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 116 and 117 together.

CAS funding of €2.1 million was provided to Approved Housing Bodies for the provision of 10 units of accommodation for careleavers in 2024. Care leaver accommodation is provided as a specific category under CAS, especially for those who have complex needs and are in danger of falling into homelessness with housing solutions for this priority category also provided through a range of delivery programmes within my Department.