Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 6 November 2012
708. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the expenditure of regeneration funding for the Waterford Regeneration project in each of the years 2008, 2009 and 2010 spent on project staff salaries and wages, project office overheads and consultant fees; the total funding for the regeneration project recouped in 2008, 2009 and 2010; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48146/12]
View answerMy Department supports an ambitious programme of regeneration projects to deliver integrated physical, social and economic regeneration, ranging from large-scale urban regeneration projects such as Ballymun and Limerick city to smaller estate regeneration projects in a number of regional cities and towns around the country, including Waterford.
In the case of complex regeneration schemes, professional staff are involved at every stage in the project life cycle ranging from initial socio-economic appraisal, planning and design, preparation of contract documents, procurement of services and works contracts, construction supervision and post project review. Depending on the availability of resources within individual authorities and the competencies and skill-sets required to progress projects through the various stages, project staff may be assigned to a regeneration scheme from within an authority’s own staff complement or may be procured through open competition by way of fixed term or services contract. Contract management and project supervision costs may be project-specific or may, in cases such as engineering services, health and safety services contracts or other specialist service provision, relate to a number of projects under a particular regeneration scheme.
Based on the information available in my Department, it is not possible with the necessary degree of certainty to disaggregate consultant and project management/supervision fees in the case of the various regeneration projects which were being progressed by Waterford City during the years 2008, 2009 and 2010. Details of the amounts allocated and recouped to the Council for the years 2008 to 2010 for the Waterford City Regeneration Projects are set out in the following table:
|
Year |
Amount Recouped |
|
2008 |
€10,553,497.00 |
|
2009 |
€8,123,692.00 |
|
2010 |
€8,286,389.00 |
