Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 7 February 2024

Select Committee on Social Protection

Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised)

Photo of Heather HumphreysHeather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

It is LIS or nothing. We are happy to liaise with Galway County Council.

It should be able to provide that information. It is up to it to get the information. Last year, we gave it almost €2 million in funding under LIS. Some people say some local authorities did better than others. We did a call out last year. We gave all of them an allocation and then we did a call asking them to send us what they could spend and told them that if they did not spend it, we would cut it from them next year. They had to be realistic because there was no point in them sending me sums of money they were not going to spend because I need to spend as the Deputy will appreciate. We got the list and gave every local authority 70% of what they asked for, so that was not a bad stab at it to try to get it down a bit. I hear what the Deputy is saying but we can engage with Galway County Council in terms of the roads referred to by the Deputy.

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