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Capital Programme Expenditure

Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 12 June 2013

Wednesday, 12 June 2013

Questions (103)

Michael Healy-Rae

Question:

103. Deputy Michael Healy-Rae asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to his recent announcement of funding of €150 million for capital projects such as new schools, roads, refurbishment of public buildings and so on, the amount of this money that has already been committed to or spent on projects; the date on which it was spent; the amount of money in real terms, out of this pool of €150 million that will now be spent were the project listed already committed to and identified in the past 24 months; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28377/13]

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As the Deputy is aware, last Wednesday I announced the allocation of an additional €150m for new capital projects in three sectors, education, transport and social housing. The additional monies will be allocated by the relevant Departments as follows. €50m will be spent on an additional 28 school building projects which were outside and in addition to the published five year building programme. The Department of Education and Skills have identified other schools that have a deficit of mainstream accommodation capacity in respect of current enrolments and/or require major refurbishment/replacement. These 28 (10 replacement schools and 18 large scale extension/refurbishment) projects are those where extensive preparations are complete in terms of architectural planning and which can be progressed quickly to tender and construction with the additional resources available.

In transport, the additional €50m will be spent on the repair and rehabilitation of 600 km of local and regional roads in 29 local authority areas. The Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport will be providing this extra funding directly to local authorities, which can start work on the repairs as soon as they receive the grants.

In the energy efficiency area, €50m is being provided for a new retrofitting scheme for local authority houses which will target up to 25,000 older local authority dwellings and aim to ensure that adequate wall and attic insulation is provided in all occupied properties. The scheme will be rolled out as quickly as possible so that works can commence during the summer.

All of the additional monies will be allocated to new projects which were not provided for in the budget allocations for 2013 and none of the monies had been spent prior to the announcement.

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