Batt O'Keeffe
Ceist:237 Mr. B. O'Keeffe asked the Minister for the Environment and Local Government if he will give details of individual grants or recoupment paid to local authorities for the financial year ended 31 December 1997. [10833/98]
Written Answers. - Local Authority Funding.
The information requested is set out in the following table by reference to the expenditure categories used in the 1997 Estimates volume. In addition to the amount shown, over £260 million was provided for the improvement and maintenance of national roads. Almost all of this expenditure flowed to local authorities through the National Roads Authority.
|
Subhead |
Description |
Grants-Recoupments etc. to local authorities in 1997 |
|
Capital |
£'000 |
|
|
B.1.1 |
Provision of local authority housing |
127,379 |
|
B.1.2 |
Improvements works in lieu of rehousing |
3,000 |
|
B.1.3 |
Extensions to local authority houses |
1,772 |
|
B.1.4 |
Provision of sites for private housing |
857 |
|
B.1.5 |
Remedial and improvement works to local authority housing |
10,468 |
|
B.1.6 |
Bathrooms in local authority housing |
1,259 |
|
B.1.7 |
Estate Improvement Programme |
1,439 |
|
B.1.8 |
Grants for voluntary housing bodies |
8,300 |
|
B.1.9 |
Surrender Grants and Mortgage Allowances |
177 |
|
B.1.10 |
Accommodation for Travellers |
9,500 |
|
B.2.2 |
Disabled persons and essential repairs grants |
5,279 |
|
B.4 |
Communal facilities in voluntary housing schemes |
188 |
|
C.2.1 |
Grants for construction-improvement of non-national public roads |
62,157 |
|
C.2.3 |
Non-national Roads Restoration Programme |
70,325 |
|
C.2.4 |
Local Improvement Scheme |
3,000 |
|
C.4.2 |
National Vehicle and Driver File |
123 |
|
D.1 |
Public and group water supply and sewerage schemes |
156,306 |
|
D.2.1 |
Waste management, including recycling projects |
894 |
|
D.2.5(ii) |
Miscellaneous capital services |
18 |
|
F.1.1 |
Fire Services Grant |
4,899 |
|
F.2 |
Public Library Service |
2,526 |
|
F.3 |
Swimming pools |
3,452 |
|
F.9 |
Urban renewal works |
9,981 |
|
F.12 |
EU Special Support Programme for Peace and Reconciliation |
4,060 |
|
Current |
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|
B.1.11 |
Recoupment of expenditure for the settlement of travellers |
1,276 |
|
B.1.12 |
Management and maintenance of travellers' accommodation |
804 |
|
B.1.14 |
Accommodation, etc., for homeless persons |
6,000 |
|
B.1.15 |
Voluntary housing rental subsidies |
4,333 |
|
B.1.16 |
Shared ownership rent subsidies |
625 |
|
B.1.17 |
Housing Management Initiative |
172 |
|
B.2.5 |
Mortgage subsidy scheme |
58 |
|
C.2.2 |
Grants for maintenance and management of non-national public roads |
19,337 |
|
C.2.3 |
Non-National Road Restoration Programme |
23,006 |
|
D.1 |
Public and group water supply and sewerage schemes |
1,796 |
|
D.2.2 |
Pollution control |
166 |
|
D.2.3 |
Environmental awareness measures |
101 |
|
D.2.4 |
Litter initiative |
298 |
|
E |
Rate Support Grant |
100,000 |
|
F.2 |
Public Library Service |
554 |
|
F.4.1 |
Subsidy towards loan charges on local authority housing etc. |
14 |
|
F.4.2 |
Subsidy towards loan charges on local authority water and waste water services, etc. |
51 |
|
F.4.3 |
Subsidy towards loan charges on local authority fire services |
25 |
|
F.5 |
Malicious injuries recoupment |
461 |