Housing grants and schemes

Housing Adaptation Grant for People with a Disability
These grants are paid where alterations need to be made to a home to make it suitable for a person with a physical, sensory or intellectual disability or a mental health difficulty.

Housing Aid for Older Persons Scheme
Grants are available to improve the homes of older people so that they can stay in their own homes for as long as possible.

Mobility Aids Grant Scheme
This scheme assists older people with the costs of essential housing repairs and maintenance.

Gaeltacht Area House Grants
Grants are available in Ireland to residents of the Gaeltacht who wish to build new houses or upgrade existing ones.

Improvement Works in Lieu of Local Authority Housing
Local authorities in Ireland may improve or extend privately owned houses as an alternative to providing local authority housing. Introduction to this Scheme.

Local authority home improvement loans
Local authority loans are available to owner-occupiers in Ireland for the carrying out of necessary works to improve, repair or extend their houses.

Housing for older people
There are special schemes and grants for housing and home improvements for older people and people with disabilities.

Better Energy Homes Scheme
This scheme provides grants to help you increase the energy efficiency of your home, including grants for home insulation.

Greener Homes Scheme
Grants to help homeowners purchase new home heating systems that use renewable sources of energy, for example, solar power and bio-mass systems.

Warmer Homes Scheme
This scheme aims to increase the energy efficiency and warmth of homes where people on low incomes are living.