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Dáil Éireann díospóireacht -
Wednesday, 24 Oct 2001

Vol. 542 No. 6

Written Answers. - Departmental Spending.

Gerry Reynolds

Ceist:

266 Mr. G. Reynolds asked the Minister for Education and Science the money allocated and spent to date in 2001 by his Department in each county excluding the BMW region under the national development plan. [25405/01]

As the Deputy will be aware, the Southern and Eastern (S&E) region was designated in 1999 as an Objective One region in transition. In general, programmes in the education sector are delivered on a national basis. My Department has provided provisional expenditure returns in respect of all national development plan measures, for both regions, to the respective operational programme managing authorities. The provisional expenditure return in respect of NDP measures, in the S&E region, for the period January-June 2001, is £247.5 million (314.3 million).

As regards the specific information requested by the Deputy in relation to allocations/ expenditure at county level under the NDP due to the wide range of programmes in the education sector, it would require an inordinate amount of official time to answer the question in the detail requested. However, if the Deputy has any queries regarding a specific measure, I will be happy to seek to obtain the information for him.

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