Departmental Funding

Thursday, 13 July 2017

Questions (1302)

Fergus O'Dowd

Question:

1302. Deputy Fergus O'Dowd asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the investment by his Department since March 2016 in County Louth and parts of east County Meath; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34066/17]

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Written answers

Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government

My Department provides funding for a wide range of capital programmes, including local authority housing, voluntary housing, estate regeneration, energy efficiency retrofitting, rural water schemes, the RAPID programme, INTERREG, fire services and library development. The information sought in relation to expenditure under these specific programmes in respect of County Louth will be compiled and forwarded to the Deputy in accordance with Standing Orders. It is not possible to disaggregate funding to Meath County Council in order to identify all the elements that relate to parts of East County Meath.

The following deferred reply was received under Standing Order 42A.

Information sought with regard to County Louth is set out in the following table. There was no spending in relation to RAPID in that county during the period referred to in the Question. With respect to INTERREG, monies under this programme are apportioned to specific cross-border projects and are not disaggregated by geographical region or county. It is not possible to disaggregate funding in respect of County Meath in order to identify elements that relate to parts of the eastern area of the county.

Programme	Funding since March 2016 (€)
Local authority housing	8,224,957
Energy efficiency retrofitting	1,111,622
Regeneration/remedial works	659,641
Fire services	392,863
Group water scheme enhancements	361,782
Libraries	215,013
Voluntary housing capital assistance	45,775
Total	11,011,653

Question No. 1303 answered with Question No. 1255.