Departmental Schemes

Thursday, 7 March 2019

Questions (222)

Dara Calleary

Question:

222. Deputy Dara Calleary asked the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the current and capital funding allocation in 2019 to schemes and programmes (details supplied); and the level of funding that previously existed when operational in tabular form. [11459/19]

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Minister of State at the Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht

As the Deputy is no doubt aware the Gaeltacht Housing Grant Schemes have been suspended for some time now and that others listed by him have been subsumed into schemes currently operated by my Department. An Comhairle um Oideachas Gaeltachta agus Gaelscolaíochta (COGG) is funded from the Department of Education and Skills' Vote.

In the interest of accuracy, the following table details the Revised Estimates Volume 2009, which is the last estimate to include the schemes listed by the Deputy, with the exception of COGG, before they were either suspended or subsumed into other schemes.

GAELTACHT AND ISLANDS DEVELOPMENT

2008 Provisional Outturn

2009 Estimate

		Current €000	Capital €000	Total €000	Current €000	Capital €000	Total €000
E.1	Gaeltacht Housing - Grants Under The Housing (Gaeltacht) Acts 1929 to 2001	-	5,000	5,000	-	2,950	2,950
E.2	Gaeltacht Cultural and Social Schemes	12,664	-	12,644	8,900	-	8,900
E.3	Gaeltacht Community and Recreational Facilities	-	4,867	4,867	-	4,800	4,800
E.4	Gaeltacht Improvement Schemes	-	6,633	6,633	-	4,200	4,200

The 2019 funding allocation for this programme, as it currently exists, has been included in the following table.

FUNDING ALLOCATION 2019

Scheme/Programme	Current €000	Capital €000	Total €000
Irish Language Support Schemes (Non-Gaeltacht)	4,650	682	5,332
Language Planning	3,200	-	3,200
Islands	7,064	1,644	8,708
Community and Language Supports Programme	7,370	2,322	9,692