Older Persons grant reopens

Kildare County Council will be taking new applications for the Older Persons grant soon, writes Brian Byrne.

This was confirmed at the recent meeting of the Athy Local Area Committee meeting, and has been welcomed by Committee Chairman Cllr Ivan Keatley, who had put down a question to the Council on the matter.

The grant has not been open to new applicants for a number of years, but the Council says that a backlog of applications has now been cleared and new applications will be accepted.

A total of €1,819,830 has been allocated to Kildare County Council to support funding for home adaptions for older people, people with disabilities and people with mobility issues. Matching funds from Kildare County Council of over €400,000 bring the total available for grants to in excess of €2.2m.