My Department provides funding to Local Authorities only in respect of a proportion of the costs of providing Civil Defence services. Such applications are based on the actual expenditure incurred during the year and are submitted and paid retrospectively.
Civil Defence training and operations are funded by a combination of an annual operational grant from this Department and a contribution from the relevant local authority on a 70/30 basis. The annual operational grant covers 70% of the running costs of Civil Defence annually, with the local authority providing the remaining 30%.
Grants are also issued to the local authorities from time to time upon receipt of an application, towards the purchase of vehicles, equipment and other miscellaneous costs incurred by Civil Defence Units. In addition, this Department has also since 2019, received funding from the Dormant Accounts Fund, which has facilitated an upgrade of the overall Civil Defence fleet of vehicles, to include the provision of new 4x4 pickup vehicles in Local Authority Civil Defence Units across the country.
The total operational and other grants, including Dormant Accounts funding, paid to Louth County Council from the Defence Vote from 2016 to date is as outlined in the table below.
|
Year
|
Operational Grant Expenditure
|
Other Grant Expenditure
|
Total Grants Paid
|
|
2016
|
€67,568
|
€22,718
|
€90,286
|
|
2017
|
€77,369
|
€0
|
€77,369
|
|
2018
|
€86,688
|
€25,567
|
€112,255
|
|
2019
|
€74,034
|
€33,452
|
€107,486
|
|
2020
|
€85,828
|
€39,880
|
€125,708
|
|
2021
|
€84,503
|
€48,293
|
€132,796
|
|
2022
|
€74,726 (YTD)
|
€1,700 (YTD)
|
€76,426 (YTD)
|
