Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)

I do not have the specific figures. Some 63 projects were initially announced for €32 million. An additional 13 projects were then announced and €10.29 million in grant aid was given in May 2008. Some 27 of the projects had been completed up to the end of 2009. A further 22 projects have yet to draw down grant aid. These projects have been delayed for a number of reasons - a lot of them from a failure to provide the obligatory matching funding. Some of them have planning difficulties, while some have failed to complete the necessary legal agreements to provide the Department with the required legal charge on the property. I suspect the bigger one is probably a failure to come up with matching funding.

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