Ms Mary Hurley:

I can briefly give the Deputy an update on that because it was one of the things that struck me when I took up the role in terms of the multiplicity of schemes and the administrative burden on local authorities. Sometimes the different calls were challenging for local authorities. One of things we did in the Department is that the former Secretary General, Mr. John McCarthy, undertook a review of all our schemes to look at how we manage them, what the eligibility criteria were and how we could streamline them. We have done some restructuring around that where we have housed capital projects differently etc. We have done that piece of work, which is very important.

One of the things we have established in the Department is a unit where we have an officer and a team that liaises with local authorities on issues arising. There are some general issues arising around inflation and supplies. There is that piece around barriers. We have that team in place to deal with local authorities and to drive delivery.

To give Deputy Dillon some figures, as he will be aware, 215 projects have been approved under the RRDF programme. The value of those is €395 million.