Rejected home improvement grants
Treacy sought payment for applicants rejected under the current scheme. O’Brien said they had failed to meet statutory requirements, refused to amend the rules, and reported about 3,000 refusals costing roughly £2 million if paid.
asked the Minister for the Environment if he will introduce emergency legislation to ensure that all applicants for home improvement grants who have been rejected since the inception of the present scheme will be paid by his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
Comment on this
These applications for house improvement grants have been rejected because statutory requirements of the scheme had not been complied with. I do not propose to amend the regulations governing the scheme as requested by the Deputy.
Comment on this
How many applications have been rejected? Would the Minister agree that the conditions pertaining to the present scheme have been considerably altered from the previous scheme? Many people were under the impression that the scheme now in operation was exactly similar to the former one and as a result they got caught up in red tape and lost their grants.