I propose to take Questions Nos. 333 and 334 together.
My Department has a wide and diverse business agenda, covering a broad range of functions including local authority housing, voluntary housing, homeless services, estate regeneration, energy efficiency retrofitting, housing grants, rural water schemes, urban renewal/regeneration, fire services, and natural and built heritage, each of which includes a number of funding schemes.
My Department engages regularly and constructively with the local government sector and with individual local authorities on their financial situations. Information on these individual programmes and schemes is available to local authorities through this regular direct engagement, as well as indirectly via the website, publications and announcements.
Information on funding provided by my Department to local authorities in 2019 and earlier years is contained in Chapter 2 of the Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2019: Central Funding of Local Authorities published by the Comptroller and Auditor General in September 2020, which is available at the following link:
www.audit.gov.ie/en/find-report/publications/report%20on%20the%20accounts%20of%20the%20public%20services/report%20on%20the%20accounts%20of%20the%20public%20services%202019.html.
The Budget 2021 Expenditure Report, published by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform details my Department's Abridged Estimates (Part III), and gives information on the estimated current and capital allocations for 2021 in respect of each relevant programme/scheme, on the basis of the financial provision made for my Department following decisions made in the context of Budget 2021. The Expenditure Report can be found at the following link: www.gov.ie/en/publication/32999-expenditure-report/. The Report does not include additional funding for housing purposes provided by certain local authorities from Local Property Tax (LPT) receipts and amounting to some €91.5 million in 2021.
On the broader question of resources available to local authorities to enable them to apply for funding from my Department, under section 159 of the Local Government Act 2001, each Chief Executive is responsible for the staffing and organisational arrangements necessary for carrying out the functions of the local authority for which he or she is responsible.