asked the Minister for the Environment the national and EEC grants that are available for making structural changes in buildings, hotels, guesthouses etc. in order to make them more accessible to the disabled.

So far as my Department are concerned provision is made under the scheme of housing grants for the disabled for local authorities to pay grants of up to the full approved cost of the work in the case of non-vested local authority houses or flats and a grant of up to two-thirds of the approved cost in the case of other houses or flats. My Department recoup local authorities up to half the cost of the work, subject to a maximum recoupment of £1,200 in any particular case. I have no functions in this respect in relation to hotels or guesthouses.

Housing authorities are also encouraged by my Department to provide an appropriate proportion of specially adapted dwellings for disabled people as part of their normal house building programme.

I am not aware of any grants from the EEC for the purposes referred to in the question.