asked the Minister for the Environment the reason for the reduction of 75 per cent in the domestic rate grant to Carrickmacross Urban District Council; and the provision he will make for the council to purchase a site for a car park in the centre of the town.
Written Answers. - Carrickmacross (Monaghan) Rate Grant.
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While the domestic rate grant allocation has been revised, I have authorised Carrickmacross UDC instead to use £65,000 from accumulated housing capital reserves and I have also allowed the council to apply 100 per cent of the proceeds of local authority house sales for general revenue purposes. The net result of these changes has been to allow a financial allocation of £105,000 to the council this year made up of the revised domestic rate grant and the other funding mentioned. This is anincrease of 1.5 per cent on the original domestic rate grant allocation notified to Carrickmacross in December of last year.
The provision of the car park in Carrickmacross is primarily a matter for the urban district council and the cost would fall to be met from the council's own resources. As I have already stated, the council will have additional resources at their disposal in 1986. The council may, at its discretion, use the block grant for roads to supplement expenditure from its own funds for this purpose.