The
latest changes in eligibility criteria for home adaptation and mobility grants
for the elderly and those with a disability have been condemned by Workers’
Party Councillor Ted Tynan.
The
Mayfield councillor said that the government had come like a thief in the night
on New Year’s Eve to bring in the new rules, which will make it harder for
people to qualify for grants to adapt their homes and would affect three key
areas of assistance: the
home adaptation grant for disabled people, the housing adaptation grant for the
elderly, and mobility aid grant scheme.
Cllr. Tynan said that after all the hype about
the departure of the Troika and the so-called regaining of Irish sovereignty it
was clear that nothing had changed in relation to austerity and cuts to the
most basic of services. “The Troika
maybe gone”, said Cllr. Tynan, “but the culture of vicious attacks on the most
vulnerable remain and will continue under the Fine Gael & Labour coalition”.
