Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 29 January 2019
541. Deputy Tony McLoughlin asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development the allocation of funding per scheme administered by his Department in counties Sligo and Leitrim in each of the years 2016 to 2018 and to date in 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4211/19]
Amharc ar fhreagraThe figures requested by the Deputy for my Department have been collated in the following table. Where fields have been left blank, this indicates that the scheme in question was not in operation in that particular year. For 2019, funding allocations have yet to be confirmed for the majority of schemes administered by my Department.
|
Scheme |
Sligo 2016 € |
Sligo 2017 € |
Sligo 2018 € |
Sligo 2019 € |
Leitrim 2016 € |
Leitrim 2017 € |
Leitrim 2018 € |
Leitrim 2019 € |
|
Outdoor Recreation Infrastructure Scheme |
92,152.50 |
970,275 |
782,240 |
226,092 |
480,000 |
1,050,153 |
40,000 |
496,019 |
|
CLÁR |
598,400 |
351,216 |
424,540 |
274,800 |
485,154 |
451,465 |
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|
Local Improvement Scheme |
496,158 |
606,870.40 |
487,947 |
550,121 |
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|
Demonstration Projects |
20,000 |
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Digital Innovation Programme |
105,000 |
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REDZ Schemes |
800,000 |
300,000 |
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Town and Village Renewal Scheme |
285,000 |
970,768 |
1,038,400 |
310,000 |
998,538 |
637,520 |
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|
Dormant Accounts Fund Social Enterprise Measure |
109,550 |
153,001 |
95,430 |
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|
Rural Regeneration and Development Fund |
€687,000* |
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Social Inclusion and Community Activation Programme |
585,514 |
585,514 |
585,514 |
585,514 |
524,650 |
524,650 |
524,650 |
524,650 |
|
Communities Facilities Scheme (CFS) |
64,500 |
64,500 |
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Re-cast RAPID |
64,500 |
64,500 |
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Community Enhancement Programme (CEP) Incl. Men’s Shed fund |
263,402 |
Funding allocation to be confirmed |
189,068 |
Funding allocation to be confirmed |
* Two projects were approved for funding under the Rural Regeneration and Development Fund for Sligo in November 2018, for a total of €1,115,752. A figure of €687,000 of this allocation is scheduled to be spent in 2019.
LEADER has a total budget of €250 million over the period 2014-2020. An amount of €220 million of this funding has been allocated to the Local Action Groups, LAGs, throughout the country who deliver the LEADER programme. The remaining €30 million is available for schemes to be delivered at a national level. The funding which has been allocated to the LAGs is provided for the duration of the programme, rather than on an annual basis. This provides greater flexibility to the LAGs in managing their resources. Sligo has been given an allocation of €7.655,647.81 for the duration of the programme; and Leitrim has been given an allocation of €5,998,474.74.
The Seniors Alert Scheme is demand-led, and funding is allocated to meet the demand under the Scheme and not divided on a geographical basis. My Department is in a position to give participant numbers by county only. The lot-based tender system for suppliers combines a number of counties into each of the seven lots, and payments are made to the suppliers in each of these lots. Therefore, it is not possible to say with full accuracy how much funding has been given to each county.
The number of participants in the Seniors Alert Scheme in each county over the period requested is as follows:
Sligo: 161 (2016), 275 (2017), 447 (2018); Leitrim: 97 (2016), 178 (2017), 203 (2018).
Further information about all the schemes in my Department is available on my Department's website.
