Dáil Éireann debate -
Tuesday, 30 Jan 2001

Vol. 529 No. 1

Written Answers. - Local Authority Funding.

Thomas P. Broughan

Question:

845 Mr. Broughan asked the Minister for the Environment and Local Government the level of rate support grants and other central Government financial supports for housing, roads and other services paid to each of the county councils and county borough councils for the years 1996,1997, 1998, 1999 and 2000. [2065/01]

Minister for the Environment and Local Government (Mr. Dempsey)

Information on grants paid to county councils and county borough corporations in respect of the major local authority services for which my Department is responsible at central level is set out in the following tables.

Non-National Roads

	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000
	£000	£000	£000	£000	£000
County Councils
Carlow	1,477	1,815	1,865	2,305	2,602
Cavan	6,097	7,146	8,189	9,401	10,107
Clare	5,640	6,932	8,221	9,759	10,516
Cork	13,676	16,337	18,605	22,623	23,270
Donegal	9,137	10,938	12,537	14,773	15,990
Dun Laoire/Rathdown	2,650	2,804	3,959	3,258	4,820
Fingal	1,868	2,483	2,977	3,725	4,229
Galway	8,624	10,444	12,104	14,295	15,456
Kerry	6,296	7,815	9,077	10,746	11,487
Kildare	4,800	5,062	6,940	7,698	10,505
Kilkenny	3,757	4,343	5,440	6,370	6,562
Laois	2,948	3,111	3,744	4,374	4,686
Leitrim	3,779	4,415	4,692	5,728	6,320
Limerick	4,867	6,013	7,392	8,885	9,619
Longford	2,785	3,158	3,542	4,083	4,447
Louth	1,932	2,242	2,923	3,303	2,433
Mayo	7,348	9,036	9,995	12,218	13,239
Meath	4,951	6,395	7,510	9,318	9,167
Monaghan	5,211	6,326	7,015	8,129	9,139
Offaly	2,802	3,319	4,068	4,754	4,823
Roscommon	4,966	5,795	6,718	7,863	8,789
Sligo	3,481	4,168	4,568	5,574	6,589
South Dublin	2,785	3,670	4,078	2,465	4,029
Tipperary N.R.	3,186	3,879	4,397	5,869	5,746
Tipperary S.R.	3,361	4,165	5,071	6,169	6,600
Waterford	3,395	4,030	4,872	5,809	6,307
Westmeath	2,475	3,606	4,172	4,233	4,350
Wexford	4,352	10,233	6,349	7,788	8,021
Wicklow	2,857	3,533	4,339	5,203	6,219
	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000
County Borough Corporations
Cork	1,400	1,088	1,902	2,547	3,352
Dublin	3,800	3,812	5,578	6,888	7,532
Galway	548	614	1,470	1,976	1,841
Limerick	550	594	1,035	1,250	1,586
Waterford	600	645	1,060	760	2,199

General Purpose Allocations

	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000
	Rate Support Grant	Rate Support Grant/Local Government (Equalisation) Fund	Local Government (Equalisation) Fund	Local Government Fund	Local Government Fund
	£000	£000	£000	£000	£000
County Councils
Carlow	2,393	3,175	3,362	3,945	4,354
Cavan	4,548	5,267	5,627	6,585	7,225
Clare	362	2,328	2,486	5,326	5,768
Cork	11,234	16,432	17,087	20,156	22,278
Donegal	6,137	10,439	10,982	13,103	14,274
Dun Laoire/Rathdown	9,685	15,151	15,861	17,831	18,995
Fingal	11,115	14,774	15,470	16,950	15,561
Galway	6,083	9,231	9,731	11,159	11,958
Kerry	8,008	10,438	10,981	12,558	14,315
Kildare	3,954	6,836	7,152	8,358	9,978

	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000
	Rate Support Grant	Rate Support Grant/Local Government (Equalisation) Fund	Local Government (Equalisation) Fund	Local Government Fund	Local Government Fund
	£000	£000	£000	£000	£000
Kilkenny	4,786	6,975	7,296	8,442	9,301
Laois	3,986	5,177	5,435	6,397	7,268
Leitrim	3,501	4,786	5,130	6,050	7,019
Limerick	3,078	4,071	4,289	4,943	5,726
Longford	6,295	8,599	8,978	10,071	10,946
Louth	2,730	3,756	3,964	4,515	5,480
Mayo	3,025	3,930	4,243	4,820	5,274
Meath	7,102	9,682	10,098	11,736	14,024
Monaghan	5,380	7,783	8,233	9,446	10,269
Offaly	4,059	4,679	4,919	5,650	5,943
Roscommon	2,700	3,700	4,006	5,132	6,007
Sligo	5,191	6,929	7,249	8,168	8,974
South Dublin	3,382	4,844	5,090	5,837	6,667
Tipperary N.R.	3,912	5,021	5,273	6,191	6,800
Tipperary S.R.	5,026	6,807	7,122	8,102	9,026
Waterford	4,546	6,211	6,505	7,525	7,980
Westmeath	3,736	5,694	6,070	6,763	7,819
Wexford	5,159	7,059	7,384	8,312	8,960
Wicklow	4,022	5,082	5,336	6,675	7,299
County Borough Corporations
Cork	5,863	8,490	8,790	11,529	11,137
Dublin	25,235	28,385	29,387	41,204	38,892
Galway	2,289	3,338	3,456	3,909	4,284
Limerick	2,952	3,333	3,751	4,684	4,767
Waterford	1,367	2,269	2,649	3,167	3,368

Water Services

	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000
	£000	£000	£000	£000	£000
County Councils
Carlow	120	456	361	300	392
Cavan	2,002	1,531	3,660	3,085	5,787
Clare	444	4,121	5,989	4,976	9,137
Cork	4,931	1,452	516	6,959	12,299
Donegal	10,266	7,032	3,717	4,352	6,066
Dun Laoire/Rathdown	14,682	13,782	8,948	4,368	2,007
Fingal	3,743	7,127	4,263	4,437	7,715
Galway	7,903	2,995	7,752	6,919	26,472
Kerry	6,287	4,120	2,568	2,453	7,368
Kildare	844	7,108	2,490	15,852	16,611
Kilkenny	414	882	950	1,988	1,511
Laois	1,234	2,931	2,790	1,449	1,768
Leitrim	516	671	797	1,447	2,168
Limerick	894	1,983	2,044	4,126	3,969
Longford	179	141	999	531	1,995
Louth	270	454	1,855	4,513	2,851
Mayo	8,478	3,501	8,811	8,039	12,664
Meath	2,831	9,139	10,762	16,144	14,865
Monaghan	225	207	968	690	2,361
Offaly	1,323	1,771	2,747	1,244	1,706
Roscommon	971	1,467	6,769	9,281	11,150
Sligo	1,615	1,418	8,784	8,606	6,937
South Dublin	165	81	218	–	901
Tipperary N.R.	2,198	3,882	3,182	3,069	3,736
Tipperary S.R.	1,626	5,460	4,268	9,550	5,512
Waterford	877	1,824	4,321	7,510	4,503
Westmeath	1,843	1,972	2,804	3,852	5,132
Wexford	1,142	1,776	1,730	1,699	4,885
Wicklow	3,021	733	551	1,216	1,319
County Borough Corporations
Cork	112	2,819	7,346	26,896	31,738
Dublin	1,325	4,337	13,277	40,490	64,993
Galway	5,051	1,068	1,257	9,424	10,510
Limerick	1,656	847	5,665	8,541	25,680
Waterford	2,528	1,215	2,173	3,826	2,025

Local Authority and Social Housing*

	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000
	£000	£000	£000	£000	£000
County Councils
Carlow	703	1,585	1,787	731	2,755
Cavan	1,125	1,411	1,781	1,947	2,347
Clare	1,137	1,723	2,396	3,658	4,366
Cork	5,501	5,412	5,536	6,985	10,500
Donegal	3,597	3,777	4,775	6,092	8,998
Dun Laoire/Rathdown	6,534	6,175	5,590	1,638	6,614
Fingal	3,666	3,168	1,432	3,234	4,685
Galway	2,386	2,568	3,332	3,893	5,887
Kerry	1,770	2,249	2,841	3,404	4,785
Kildare	3,306	4,146	4,524	4,587	6,303
Kilkenny	976	1,139	1,220	1,975	3,023
Laois	1,330	1,429	1,364	1,878	2,672
Leitrim	1,299	1,511	1,625	1,707	2,244
Limerick	1,470	2,449	2,153	2,432	3,297
Longford	1,665	2,259	2,284	2,168	5,654
Louth	1,058	1,017	1,311	934	1,502
Mayo	2,570	3,465	3,335	3,199	4,544
Meath	1,355	1,937	2,952	3,225	4,617
Monaghan	688	848	1,009	1,631	1,800
Offaly	796	1,381	1,541	1,406	2,242
Roscommon	1,359	1,672	1,832	1,681	3,289
Sligo	939	1,589	1,977	2,265	2,673
South Dublin	3,123	3,287	6,501	11,105	10,295
Tipperary N.R.	1,078	1,213	1,496	1,036	1,741
Tipperary S.R.	1,680	1,501	1,966	1,129	2,405
Waterford	923	1,157	1,769	1,810	2,760
Westmeath	1,296	1,464	1,683	1,919	2,673
Wexford	2,553	2,781	3,257	3,565	4,925
Wicklow	2,351	2,264	3,420	2,589	4,645
County Borough Corporations
Cork	6,475	5,884	6,731	8,714	16,594
Dublin	22,019	20,849	30,229	53,125	76,362
Galway	2,819	4,012	6,918	6,683	2,650
Limerick	2,700	3,639	4,272	2,996	11,066
Waterford	2,665	2,002	2,874	2,336	1,491

*Figures shown are the Exchequer outturns for the housing construction programme including sites, extensions and the improvements in lieu scheme. The figure for Dublin Corporation also includes payments in respect of the Ballymun Regeneration and the Inner City Flat programme.