Dáil Éireann debate -
Thursday, 21 Jun 2001

Vol. 538 No. 5

Written Answers. - EU Funding.

Seymour Crawford

Question:

135 Mr. Crawford asked the Minister for the Environment and Local Government the amount of funding his Department has received from Brussels in each of the past ten years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18429/01]

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

The following table gives information on EU funding received by my Department between 1991 and 2000 in respect of certain co-financed capital programmes. During the same period, co-financed expenditure by my Department also attracted other Structural and Cohesion Fund aid; this was not appropriated in aid of my Department but was remitted directly by the EU to the Exchequer.

Year	Description of EU receipt	£
1991	Recoupment from the EC of part cost of grants for rural water schemes and road improvement schemes in certain less favoured areas	3,732,537
1992	Recoupment from the EC of part cost of grants for rural water schemes in certain less favoured areas	757,582
1993	No EU receipts	0
1994	No EU receipts	0
1995	Receipts from EU for FEOGA village renewal programme	1,645,684
Year	Description of EU receipt	£
1996	Receipts from EU for FEOGA village renewal programme	1,089,593
	Receipts from EU for FEOGA element of the Programme for Peace and Reconciliation	116,703
1997	Receipts from EU for FEOGA village renewal programme	5,937,859
1998	Receipts from EU for FEOGA element of the Programme for Peace and Reconciliation	1,558,660
1999	Receipts from EU for FEOGA village renewal programme	4,939,984
2000	Receipts from EU for FEOGA village renewal programme	685,000
	Receipts from EU for FEOGA element of the Programme for Peace and Reconciliation	880,000

For the years 1991 to 1999 information is taken from the Appropriation Accounts reproduced in the Comptroller and Auditor Generals annual reports. For the year 2000 the figures shown are provisional and are taken from the 2001 Revised Estimates for Public Services.