1508 Mr. Deasy asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the amount of funding under the national disabled persons housing and essential repairs grant scheme that was returned unspent to his Department by each city and county council in the years 2004 and 2005; his views on whether this under-spending is likely to be due to owner occupiers who are in receipt of a disability pension, and who are the main breadwinners in their households, being unable to fund the 10% gap between the grant allocated and the cost of improvements; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2343/06]

Summary

1508 Mr. Deasy asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the amount of funding under the national disabled persons housing and essential repairs grant scheme that was returned unspent to his Department by each city and county council in the years 2004 and 2005; his views on whether this under-spending is likely to be due to owner occupiers who are in receipt of a disability pension, and who are the main breadwinners in their households, being unable to fund the 10% gap between the grant allocated and the cost of improvements; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2343/06]

This text is taken from the official record. PoliticalRepo does not editorialize.

Timeline

No timeline events have been ingested for this record yet.

Votes

No vote records are attached yet.

Versions

No version snapshots stored. Document URLs remain at the source.

Documents

1 official file

• Housing Grants.

  xml · EN · 25 January 2006

  ViewDownloadOpen at official source

Sponsors

No sponsors or actors listed by the source.

Related records

No cross-record relationships stored yet.