Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 30 July 2020
167. Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the capital projects his Department will fund in 2020 and 2021; the budget for each in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20824/20]
View answerCapital expenditure in my Department comprises, in the main, of grant funding for sustainable energy programmes administered by the SEAI. There is some additional capital funding to Local Authorities under the landfill remediation scheme as well as operational capital funding for the Department and the agencies under its remit. Within the Department, capital projects are delivered primarily in the Communications and Natural Resources programme areas, and in this regard, the information for 2020 requested by the Deputy is shown in the table below.
|
Project |
Budget € (000’s) |
|
National Postcode System (Eircodes) |
1,500 |
|
Tellus, National Airborne Geophysical & Ground Geochemical Mapping Programme |
3,000 |
|
INFOMAR, National Marine Mapping Programme |
4,000 |
|
National Broadband Plan* |
146,296 |
*including a capital carryover from 2019 of €27.3m.
Detailed programme allocations for 2021 will be agreed as part of the annual Estimates process and published in the Revised Estimates Volume, subsequent to each Budget Day.
