Conor McGuinness (Waterford, Sinn Fein)
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179. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the allocation per local authority for the Disability Adaptation to Housing Stock for each year from 2015-2025 and for 2026, in tabular form. [17710/26]

James Browne (Wexford, Fianna Fail)
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My Department provides funding to local authorities under the Disabled Persons Grants scheme to carry out works on social homes to address the needs of older people, people with a disability or overcrowded situations. Typical works include adaptations such as stair-lifts, level deck showers, ramps and grab rails, widening door opening widths, and improving circulation spaces. Extensions to provide for ground floor bathrooms and bedrooms can also be supported.

The Disabled Persons Grant Funding Programme budget for 2026 is €28.5m and covers a number of schemes including adaptation works for local authority homes occupied by older and disabled persons and the Remedial and Improvement Works Schemes. €26.5m of the available funding in 2026 will however be spent on adaptations of local authority homes occupied by disabled and older persons and individual local authority allocations for 2026 will issue shortly.

The allocation and funding drawn down under the programme by each local authority for the period 2011-2024 is available on my Department's website at www.gov.ie/en/publication/061cd-disabled-persons-grant-and-improved-works-in-lieu-schemes-allocation-and-drawdown/?referrer=

Details of delivery under the 2025 Disabled Persons Grant Programme will be published shortly.