Flood Relief Schemes Expenditure

Thursday, 21 January 2016

Ceisteanna (66)

Pearse Doherty

Ceist:

66. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the funding allocated to each of the competent State agencies and authorities for the co-ordination and implementation of flood risk management and mitigation measures, by county, for each year since 2005 in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2610/16]

Amharc ar fhreagra

Freagraí scríofa

Minister of State at the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (Deputy Simon Harris)

The Office of Public Works (OPW) is the lead State body for the co-ordination and implementation of Government policy on flood risk management. It is allocated funding annually from the Exchequer for its various programmes and measures in this area. Approximately €378 million has been expended during the period 2005-2015 on major Flood Relief Schemes, undertaken directly by the OPW or funded by the OPW and undertaken by local authorities and also on the provision of funding to local authorities to carry our smaller, more localised flood relief works under the Minor Flood Mitigation Works and Coastal Protection Scheme. The total of €378m also includes expenditure by the OPW on its Catchment Flood Risk Assessment and Management (CFRAM) Programme. Expenditure by the OPW on its Arterial Drainage Maintenance programme is not included in the figure of €378m.

Expenditure for this period is shown on a county by county basis in the following table. The table shows that expenditure on major Flood Relief Schemes amounted to €267 million in this period while €52 million was spent on providing funding to Local Authorities to undertake small scale projects under the Minor Flood Mitigation Works and Coastal Protection Scheme which commenced in 2009 and for the repair and restoration of coastal defences following the storms which caused extreme damage at the beginning of 2014.

The OPW has spent approximately €60 million on other programmes, including the Flood Studies Update, Hydrology and Coastal, Flood Risk Data Management and the CFRAM Programme of studies, that is not attributable to a specific county and is therefore not included in the details of the table.

In addition to the above figures the OPW has spent €183 million over this period on its Arterial Drainage Maintenance Programme which covers 11,500 kms of river channels and approximately 730km of embankments around the country. As these are catchment based activities it is not possible to attribute the costs on a county basis and are therefore not included in the details of the table.

Local Authorities or other State bodies may have incurred expenditure directly themselves on flood relief measures utilising their own resources in the period in question. The OPW does not have any information on such expenditure.

Council	Type of Work	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	TOTALS
		€,000	€,000	€,000	€,000	€,000	€,000	€,000	€,000	€,000	€,000	€,000	€,000
Carlow Co Co.
	Major Schemes	38	12	2,144	9	57	0	0	2,732	716	0	0	5,708
	Minor Works	0	0	0	0	0	32	611	439	114	0	0	1,196
Cavan Co. Co.
	Major Schemes	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	Minor Works	0	0	0	0	0	72	0	111	0	0	0	183
Clare Co. Co.													0
	Major Schemes	337	320	255	2,873	4,793	1,995	2,390	287	9,668	4,196	1,410	28,524
	Minor Works	0	0	0	0	45		617	426	271	1,387	8,530	11,276
Cork Co. Co.
	Major Schemes	1,975	825	730	5,097	9,618	6,162	6,235	9,395	12,167	6,581	4,135	62,920
	Minor Works	0	0	0	0	32	1,045	402	282	222	685	724	3,392
Donegal
	Major Schemes	0	0	0	13	34	0	0	0	36	64	0	147
	Minor Works	0	0	0	0	0	484	32	79	76	562	1,067	2,300
Dublin
	Major Schemes	2,514	4,910	6,996	3,117	3,678	3,162	805	4,046	2,710	6,315	4,524	42,777
	Minor Works	0	0	0	0	0	0	320	873	373	605	163	2,334
Galway
	Major Schemes	25					285	1,518	795	234	190	201	3,248
	Minor Works				319	35	2,937	1,510	765	248	1,048	1,642	8,504
Kerry
	Major Schemes	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	Minor Works	0	0	0	0	377	359	44	190	35	1,206	176	2,387
Kildare
	Major Schemes	3	0	644	2,019	835	814	1,470	715	130	89	149	6,868
	Minor Works	0	0	0	0	180	1,176	209	352	57	3	3	1,980
Kilkenny
	Major Schemes	5,127	517	616	787	1,180	62	4	0	0	0	0	8,293
	Minor Works	0	0	0	0	68	65	538	58	108	27	0	864
Laois
	Major Schemes	0	0	0	121	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	121
	Minor Works	0	0	0	0	0	0	14	0	0	0	0	14
Leitrim
	Major Schemes	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	Minor Works	0	0	0	0	0	160	125	101	111	0	166	663
Limerick
	Major Schemes	470	0	30	40	422	72	0	60	0	691	69	1,854
	Minor Works	0	0	0	0	0	309	268	92	142	291	43	1,145
Longford
	Major Schemes	0	0	0	164	116	0	0	0	0	0	0	280
	Minor Works	0	0	0	0	0	202	261	0	0	0	0	463
Louth
	Major Schemes	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	Minor Works	0	0	0	0	45	137	67		72	191	71	583
Mayo
	Major Schemes	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	12	11	78	24	125
	Minor Works	0	0	0	0	233	309	31	76	0	2,117	2,135	4,901
Meath
	Major Schemes	1,755	2,607	599	391	874	1,669	1,130	479	58	36	66	9,664
	Minor Works	0	0	0	0	77	0	45	4	163	0	127	416
Monaghan
	Major Schemes	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	Minor Works	0	0	0	0	115	0	32	227	28	463	309	1,174
Offaly
	Major Schemes	0	177	0	0	22	0	13	799	997	53	6	2,067
	Minor Works	0	0	0	0	27	209	0	0	0	0	0	236
Roscommon
	Major Schemes	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	Minor Works	0	0	0	0	105	951	0	105	87	0	0	1,248
Sligo
	Major Schemes	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	Minor Works	0	0	0	0	41	423	0	59	290	0	338	1,151
Tipperary
	Major Schemes	719	1,811	1,820	5,743	7,584	5,495	11,280	4,170	786	1,323	897	41,628
	Minor Works	0	0	0	0	14	306	327	133	0	5	81	866
Waterford
	Major Schemes	1	57	5,000	30	500	2,700	600	3,315	3,996	4,240	2,542	22,981
	Minor Works	0	0	0	0	0	54	0	14	15	366	895	1,344
Westmeath
	Major Schemes	0	0	0	130	233	58	0	0	0	0	0	421
	Minor Works	0	0	0	0	90	54	83	0		0	0	227
Wexford
	Major Schemes	25	414	0	93	231	124	0	51	88	0	317	1,343
	Minor Works	0	0	0	0	90	518	0	90	38	356	921	2,013
Wicklow
	Major Schemes	150	0	59	313	299	1,738	0	7,117	997	4,875	12,444	27,992
	Minor Works	0	0	0	0	227	248	70	389	8	0	140	1,082
TOTALS		13,139	11,650	18,893	21,259	32,277	34,386	31,051	38,838	35,052	30,484	44,315	318,903

Question No. 67 answered with Question No. 63.