Home improvement grants are essential to facilitate disabled and older people to live at home with independence, dignity and safety, but a backlog exists to accessing this crucial support across the State, including in County Monaghan. The Minister for housing has said that this funding will be reviewed in future years as part of the annual budgetary process, but for those who need these supports this year and will not receive them, a promise to review the situation in the years ahead is of little relief, especially if their independence is compromised in the interim. Will the Tánaiste undertake to review this immediately and to ensure that local authorities are properly funded to deliver the supports, so those who most need them get them?

The Deputy is right to raise this, and I have heard it raised in the House over the last couple of weeks. I am pleased to be able to say that we now have significant funding for 2026 onwards. The Deputy’s question is a valid one, namely, whether there is anything that can be done between now and the start of 2026. My understanding is that the Department of housing keeps this under review and, as it gets closer to the end of the year, if there is an ability to provide additional funding to local authorities that can carry out the works, it tries to do that. I will ask the Minister, Deputy Browne, to look specifically at the case of Monaghan and revert to the Deputy directly.