Annual allocations to local authorities are made following consultations with these authorities and having regard to the Department's relevant Estimates provisions, and not normally on foot of individual programme applications or bids from local authorities.
Information in relation to the estimated current expenditure and income of local authorities is published in the annual local authority budgets, the latest version of which is in respect of 2003 and is available in the Oireachtas Library. The 2004 version will be published shortly. While considerable data are provided in these volumes they exclude capital grants.
The following table gives details of recent annual allocations from my Department to Meath and Kildare county councils in respect of local government fund general purpose grants, the water services investment programme and non-national roads.
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Programme
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2002
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2003
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2004
|
|
€
|
€
|
€
|
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Kildare County Council
|
|
|
|
|
LGF — General Purpose Grants
|
15,256,241
|
16,494,787
|
19,507,617
|
|
Water Services Investment Programme
|
7,614,367
|
25,052,414
|
12,647,104
|
|
Non-National Roads
|
18,307,462
|
13,960,703
|
20,867,825
|
|
Meath County Council
|
|
|
|
|
LGF — General Purpose Grants
|
17,681,100
|
18,687,615
|
21,849,991
|
|
Water Services Investment Programme
|
13,460,428
|
15,810,191
|
19,445,161
|
|
Non-National Roads
|
21,560,437
|
10,054,028
|
17,227,215
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