Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 11 November 2021
Public Accounts Committee
2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 31 - Transport
Chapter 5 - Expenditure on Night Vision Imaging Technology and Training for Search and Rescue
Special Report 113 of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Procurement of Vehicles by the Irish Coast Guard
9:30 am
Mr. Dominic Mullaney:
We asked local authorities to base their programmes on their initial restoration and improvement grant for this year. The figure for these grants for the country overall was €260 million for this year. Each council gets a certain proportion of that and bases its programme on it. Because we will have an increased budget next year, there is a likelihood that councils will get a bit more than they did this year. That will allow them to get all of their projects for 2022 done and also to start into those projects that were programmed for the following year.
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