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Dept. Of Housing To Review Three Key Housing Adaptation & Mobilty Grants.

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Two of the three are designed to enable people to modify their homes in accordance with their needs.

The Department of Housing has committed to a review of three kinds of housing grants.

The means testing attached to the Housing Adapation Grant is to be re-examined later this year

There are two other grants in this suite, which includes a mobility aids grant and a Housing Adaption Grant for older people.

Two of the three are designed to enable people to modify their homes in accordance with their needs.

The Dept. this year allocated €75 million to the schemes, but local authorities such as Kildare County Council, must contribute 20% funding.

Kildare North Social Democrat TD and Co-Leader, Catherine Murphy, has been speaking to Kildare Today.

She says families, in particular, may be disadvantaged by means tests.


Deputy Murphy joined Clem Ryan on Friday's edition of the programme, where they also discussed HSE Covid related expenditure

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