Seán Sherlock
Question:479. Deputy Sean Sherlock asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of projects currently being funded across Cork city and county in tabular form by financial value and name. [40732/22]
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In my role as Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform I am responsible for setting the overall capital allocations across Departments and for monitoring monthly expenditure at a Departmental level. Decisions on how and where those allocations are invested by Departments are a matter, in the first instance, for my ministerial colleagues. Management and delivery of the individual investment projects, within the allocations agreed under the National Development Plan (NDP), rests with the individual sponsoring Department in each case.
You will appreciate that the key role of promoting and leading development at county level rests with the relevant local authority. Under the umbrella of Project Ireland 2040, Government has allocated capital funding behind the national priorities set out in the National Planning Framework (NPF), thereby, providing clarity to stakeholders as to the linkage between the increasing capital resource envelope and national policy principles.
Under the NPF, the three Regional Assemblies are now responsible for co-ordinating, promoting and supporting the strategic planning and sustainable development of their regions, consistent with the objectives of the NPF, through the preparation of Regional Spatial and Economic Strategies (RSES). The strategy for the Southern Region provides the opportunity for the priorities for Cork city and county to be integrated into a regional investment plan.
I might also add that my Department publishes the myProjectIreland online interactive map and a capital investment tracker on gov.ie/2040, highlighting an extensive list of public investment in projects and programmes. The interactive map and capital investment tracker - mostly recently updated in May 2022- sets out details of the key projects and programmes being implemented under the NDP, by providing updates on the progress of all major investments that make up Project Ireland 2040. The capital tracker includes a number of major projects directly related to Cork city and county. The tracker currently focuses on projects and programmes with costs greater than €20 million.
In addition, my Department has published Regional Reports for 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021 which highlight the public investments which have been made throughout the country under Project Ireland 2040, including in Cork and the rest of the Southern Region. These reports are also available on gov.ie/2040. While the Southern Regional Reports do not provide an exhaustive list of all public capital expenditure in the region, they serve to highlight the diverse range of capital investments being made by the State in the county of Cork.