Dáil Éireann debate -
Tuesday, 26 Apr 1983

Vol. 341 No. 9

Written Answers . - Local Improvements Scheme Allocations .

620.

Mr. Leonard

asked the Minister for the Environment (a) the total allocation to each county under the local improvements scheme in each of the years 1977 to 1981, inclusive; (b) the number of outstanding applications in each county on 31 December 1982; and (c) the average cost of the scheme in each county.

Minister for the Environment (Mr. Spring)

: Details of the total allocations under the local improvements scheme to each county council for each of the five years 1977 to 1981 are set out in Table 1. Table 2, based on recent information supplied by councils, gives details of the position as at 30 November 1982 in relation to applications received under the scheme.

Precise information is not available on the average cost per scheme. The cost of the schemes is financed mainly by State grant and partly by contributions payable by the landholders concerned. Column 6 of Table 2 gives, for each county, an estimate, based on the information furnished by councils, of the amount of State grant which would be required on the assumption that all the schemes were undertaken. Applications may be subsequently withdrawn, or schemes may not otherwise be undertaken due for example to the failure to pay local contributions, withdrawal by one or more of the landholders concerned from a proposed scheme or refusal by one or more landholders to permit entry by council on land for the purposes of a scheme.

TABLE 1

Allocations under the Local Improvement Scheme 1977-1981.

County	1977 (£,000)	1978 (£,000)	1979 (£,000)	1980 (£,000)	1981 (£,000)	Total 1977-1981 (£,000)
Carlow	6.5	11	18	14	21	70.5
Cavan	98	174.5	280	196	260	1,008.5
Clare	35	64	100	73	97	369
Cork	77	130	205	144	192	748
Donegal	118	201	310	235	313	1,177
Dublin	1	2.5	4	3	25	35.5
Galway	85	146	236	171	228	866
Kerry	112	199	310	230	304	1,155
Kildare	6	10	15	11	20	62
Kilkenny	6.5	11	16	10	14	57.5
Laois	14	24.5	37	27	36	138.5
Leitrim	104	177.5	275	207	276	1,039.5
Limerick	12	21	33	24	30	120
Longford	24	42.5	70	51	60	247.5
Louth	13	23	35	25	33	129
Mayo	118	210	332	242	320	1,222
Meath	7	11	16	8	14	56
Monaghan	36	65	104	75	100	380
Offaly	22	38.5	57	41	55	213.5
Roscommon	30	55	90	65	87	327
Sligo	34	59	92	67	89	341
Tipperary N.R.	3.4	6	10	5.5	14	39
Tipperary S.R.	3.5	6	9	5.5	27	51
Waterford	9	17	26	19	25	96
Westmeath	4	6.5	10	7	14	41.5
Wexford	14	25.5	40	29	39	147.5
Wicklow	7	13	20	15	21	76
TOTALS	1,000	1,750	2,750	2,000	2,714	10,214

TABLE 2

Applications on hands under Local Improvement Scheme at 30 November 1982.

1.	2.	3.	4.	5.	6.
County	Number of Schemes where applications had been processed
Offers made and local contribution paid by land holders involved	Offers made and local contribution awaited	Applications not yet processed	Total Number of Schemes involved	Total estimated grant value (£,000)
Carlow	1	1	47	49	313
Cavan	19	35	480	534	2,068
Clare	5	1	91	97	481
Cork	10	—	173	183	1,168
Donegal	31	7	1,756	1,794	3,289
Dublin	—	—	—	—	—
Galway	3	—	233	236	1,122
Kerry	22	28	797	847	3,416
Kildare	1	—	6	7	48
Kilkenny	1	2	7	10	34
Laois	—	2	33	35	168
Leitrim	—	3	374	377	3,742
Limerick	—	—	16	16	70
Longford	4	—	34	38	160
Louth	—	—	66	66	470
Mayo	—	—	2,148	2,148	5,370
Meath	—	4	4	8	45
Monaghan	—	18	405	423	3,781
Offaly	1	—	37	38	192
Roscommon	—	28	49	77	505
Sligo	3	59	51	113	530
Tipperary N.R.	—	—	4	4	N/A
Tipperary S.R.	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Waterford	—	13	55	68	233
Westmeath	—	—	3	3	6
Wexford	—	—	101	101	686
Wicklow	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

N/A: No details available.