Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 19 December 2018
524. Deputy Dara Calleary asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development the amount of expenditure that has been incurred to date under the local improvement scheme allocation of almost €10 million to local authorities announced on 26 October 2018 to local authorities sanctioned by each local authority on the scheme in tabular form. [53938/18]
View answerThe Local Improvement Scheme, or LIS, is a programme for improvement works on small private or non-public roads in rural areas. The scheme is funded by my Department and is administered through the Local Authorities.
As the Deputy may be aware, there was no dedicated funding for this scheme for a number of years due to constraints on public expenditure. However, I was very conscious of the underlying demand for the scheme in rural areas throughout the country.
I therefore reintroduced the Local Improvement Scheme in September 2017 and allocated a total of €17.4 million to Local Authorities in 2017, based on demand and the capacity of Local Authorities to substantially complete the works before the end of the year.
In February of this year, and given the continuing level of demand for this funding in rural communities across Ireland, I allocated €10.8 million to Local Authorities across the country under the 2018 LIS scheme. I also asked the Local Authorities to prepare a secondary list of roads which they could complete if further funding became available for the scheme during the year.
Following on from this, on 26th October last, I announced a further round of almost €10 million in LIS funding to the Local Authorities. The allocations on a county-by-county basis for both of these rounds of funding are available on my Department's website.
60% of the funding allocated under Round 2 of the 2018 LIS scheme has been released to eligible Local Authorities on the basis of substantial completion of the works by year-end. The amount of funding released to each Local Authority is provided on the table below.
LIS Round 2 2018
|
County |
Funding released to Local Authority |
|
Carlow |
€166,967.40 |
|
Cavan |
€205,008.00 |
|
Clare |
€334,106.40 |
|
Cork |
€420,000.00 |
|
Donegal |
€545,109.60 |
|
Galway |
€600,000.00 |
|
Kerry |
€289,794.00 |
|
Kildare |
€47,754.60 |
|
Kilkenny |
€218,809.80 |
|
Laois |
€182,553.00 |
|
Leitrim |
€180,072.00 |
|
Limerick |
€164,009.40 |
|
Longford |
€133,330.20 |
|
Louth |
€0.00 |
|
Mayo |
€592,941.00 |
|
Meath |
€248,642.40 |
|
Monaghan |
€174,504.60 |
|
Offaly |
€212,333.40 |
|
Roscommon |
€270,406.80 |
|
Sligo |
€194,922.00 |
|
Tipperary |
€101,290.80 |
|
Waterford |
€195,028.20 |
|
Westmeath |
€195,134.40 |
|
Wexford |
€90,846.00 |
|
Wicklow |
€214,881.00 |
|
TOTAL |
€5,978,445.00 |
