Housing adaptation grants review
Deputy Murphy cited an ALONE report showing long waiting lists and funding shortfalls for housing adaptation grants, and said a promised review had not appeared. The Minister of State said extra funding had been provided, a review was completed, and discussions with his department were under way.
I thank Deputy Murphy. In the current year, we have provided additional funding to any local authorities that came forward looking for it because we want to keep the applications being processed. If there are individual applications that are not being processed, the Deputy might bring them to my attention.
A review was completed. I came in as Minister for State and went through the review in great depth with my officials. We are currently in detailed discussions with the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform and we really want to bring those discussions to a conclusion as quickly as possible.
