Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail)

The gross expenditure allocation for my Department in 2004 is approximately €298 million. As the Deputy will be aware, details of the allocations to individual programme areas are included in the Revised Estimates Volume 2004, which was published earlier in the year.

Expenditure up to 24 September 2004 across the three main programme areas, excluding administration, is €162 million, which can broadly be broken down as follows: an Ghaeilge agus an Ghaeltacht, €49 million; community affairs, €77 million; and rural affairs, €36 million. The Deputy will also be aware that expenditure within these programme areas takes place across a wide range of schemes and projects, descriptions of which are available on my Department's website at www.pobail.ie.

It is the practice of both my colleague, the Minister of State, Deputy Noel Ahern, and myself to make available on the Department's website details of all announcements relating to grant approvals and other expenditure-related decisions under these programmes.

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