Batt O'Keeffe
Question:89 Mr. B. O'Keeffe asked the Minister for the Environment the individual grants or recoupments paid to local authorities by his Department for 1995. [7328/96]
Written Answers. - Grants to Local Authorities.
The information requested is set out in the following table by reference to the expenditure categories used in the 1995 Estimates volume. In addition to the amount shown, over £215 million was provided for the improvement and maintenance of national roads. Almost all of this expenditure flowed to local authorities through the National Roads Authority.
Table
|
Subhead |
Description |
Grants/Recoupments etc. to local authorities in 1995 |
|
Capital |
£'000 |
|
|
B.1.1 |
Local authority housing construction |
116,924 |
|
B.1.2 |
Remedial works to local authority housing |
9,943 |
|
B.1.3 |
Bathrooms in local authority houses |
2,300 |
|
B.1.4 |
Accommodation etc. for travellers |
6,533 |
|
B.1.7 |
Grants for voluntary housing |
15,000 |
|
B.1.9 |
Improvement works in lieu of rehousing |
1,513 |
|
B.1.10 |
Extensions to local authority houses |
243 |
|
B.1.14 |
Provision of private housing sites |
252 |
|
B.2.2 |
Disabled persons-essential repairs grants |
3,499 |
|
B.4 |
Communal facilities in voluntary housing schemes |
750 |
|
C.1.3 |
Grants for improvement of non-national roads |
77,598 |
|
C.1.5 |
Dublin Transportation — traffic management measures |
2,253 |
|
C.1.6 |
Restoration programme for non-national roads |
17,000 |
|
C.2 |
Local Improvement Scheme |
3,000 |
|
D.1 |
Grants for water and sewerage schemes |
103,862 |
|
D.2.1 |
Waste recycling grants to local authorities |
77 |
|
D.2.4 (2) |
Miscellaneous capital services |
164 |
|
F.1.1 |
Fires services grants |
4,500 |
|
F.2 |
Public library service |
3,019 |
|
F.3 |
Access for people with disabilities |
334 |
|
F.4 |
Swimming pools |
2,000 |
|
F.10 |
Urban renewal grants |
5,930 |
|
F.13.8 |
North Wall Women's Centre |
330 |
|
F.13.9 |
Sheriff Street Youth Club |
250 |
|
Current |
||
|
B.1.5 |
Recoupment of expenditure for the settlement of travellers |
1,235 |
|
B.1.6 |
Recoupment of expenditure on homeless persons |
2,214 |
|
B.1.8 |
Voluntary housing rental subsidies |
1,701 |
|
B.1.12 |
Housing management initiative |
56 |
|
B.1.13 |
Shared ownership subsidies |
299 |
|
B.2.5 |
Mortgage subsidy scheme |
180 |
|
C.1.4 |
Grants for maintenance of non-national roads |
25,341 |
|
C.1.6 |
Restoration programme for non-national roads |
3,000 |
|
C.4.1 |
Recoupment in respect of vehicle registration etc. |
13,409 |
|
D.2.2 |
Pollution control |
229 |
|
E |
Rates support grant |
189,000 |
|
F.2 |
Public library service |
437 |
|
F.5.1 |
Subsidies towards loan charges on local authority housing etc. |
68 |
|
F.5.2 |
Subsidies towards loan charges on voluntary housing |
120 |
|
F.5.3 |
Subsidies towards loan charges on water and waste water services |
104 |
|
F.5.4 |
Subsidies towards loan charges on fire services |
101 |
|
F.6. |
Malicious injuries recoupment |
1,696 |