Joan Collins (Dublin South Central, People Before Profit Alliance)
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144. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide a breakdown of the expenditure of regeneration funding in 2013 in respect of the Cranmore and environs regeneration project in Sligo; if funding is expended on staff salaries, consultants’ fees, firms providing professional services, community workers and so on; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15714/14]

Jan O'Sullivan (Limerick City, Labour)
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My Department currently supports an ambitious programme of regeneration which seeks to address the causes of disadvantage in communities and large social housing estates and flat complexes through holistic programmes of physical, social and economic regeneration. In 2013, some €70 million was recouped in respect of regeneration programmes at Ballymun, Dublin City, Cork City, Limerick City, Tralee, Dundalk and Sligo.

The Dundalk and Sligo regeneration projects are currently at master planning stage. With the exception of some “early win” projects, expenditure at both locations relates to the development, in consultation with local communities and other stakeholder groups, of the detailed masterplans and implementation strategies as well as social interventions, the acquisition of replacement housing and the strategic demolition of houses to facilitate future regeneration.

Some €1.38 million was recouped to Sligo Borough Council in 2013 in respect of the Regeneration Programme for Cranmore and environs. A breakdown of this expenditure is set out in the following table.