Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 30 March 2023
Public Accounts Committee
Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development
Report of the Accounts of the Public Services 2021
Chapter 6: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
9:30 am
Ms Mary Hurley:
If you look at LEADER funding on an annual basis, there can be at the beginning of the programme a low drawdown and, towards the end of the programme, it can really go up. It is difficult to assess it on an annual basis. Drawdowns can vary depending on where we are at in the timing of the programme. In the new programme there is a total of €250 million, of which we have €180 million for the programme and there is transitional funding out there at the moment of €70 million. There is no cut in terms of the previous programme. It is-----