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- Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (25 Apr 2018) Éamon Ó Cuív: It is one thing Deputy Ó Cuív making a recommendation, but it is another thing for the committee to make a recommendation.
- Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (25 Apr 2018) Éamon Ó Cuív: The question I am asking is not whether I can make a recommendation. Of course I can say whatever I want within the terms of reference of the meeting. Can the committee make a recommendation, collectively, to the Minister?
- Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (25 Apr 2018) Éamon Ó Cuív: I want to make one more point before we start. It is a pity we are almost one third of the way through the year before we even get to discuss how the money was laid out. Already a lot of decisions have been made and a lot of water has gone under the bridges on the Corrib, but one thing we do not have, which is a huge lack, is the six monthly report on the action plan for rural Ireland,...
- Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (25 Apr 2018) Éamon Ó Cuív: Reading the fine print of the Estimate, the Minister has €30 million for the Leader programme. There is a carryover of another €5 million, giving a total of €35 million, of which €11 million or €12 million will go to the cost of administration of th programme. How this is done is one mystery I have yet to solve. It is considered to be capital expenditure,...
- Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (25 Apr 2018) Éamon Ó Cuív: Does that include administration?
- Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (25 Apr 2018) Éamon Ó Cuív: When administration is taken out, it is nearly €1 million a month.
- Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (25 Apr 2018) Éamon Ó Cuív: According to the Minister's figures - not mine - on 15 April, total project payments under the Leader programme were €1.5 million. The administration is easily budgeted for because it is the same when aggregated over the year - it is approximately €11 million. The Chairman asked a question about clearing roadblocks and so on but the Minister made a valid point in reply. If...
- Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (25 Apr 2018) Éamon Ó Cuív: In a similar way, people get a sanction for money under these things and, for one reason or another, there are delays in commencing and so on. I am being pragmatic and while we would much prefer to be way ahead in approvals, we are where we are. I accept that it is ramping up slowly but no matter how fast it ramps up in the second half of the year, very little of what is approved in the...
- Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (25 Apr 2018) Éamon Ó Cuív: May I ask a final question?
- Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (25 Apr 2018) Éamon Ó Cuív: It is a quick question. The larger projects of €300,000, €400,000 or €500,000 are those that are most likely to have a lasting legacy. Let us be honest about it - if the Government matches a project's funding of €500,000, that is still only €1 million. With all of the significant costs involved nowadays in terms of consultants, planning, quantity...
- Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (25 Apr 2018) Éamon Ó Cuív: When Commissioner Hogan is here tomorrow, I presume it would be a good idea for him to bring his good offices to bear on the Government and encourage it to simplify the administration of Leader under the new Common Agricultural Policy, CAP, and to get rid of all the layers. However, he might have to discuss that matter with himself in the first instance. He might remember that a certain Mr....
- Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (25 Apr 2018) Éamon Ó Cuív: Since the Minister is reading out statistics on everybody's county, he might as well do the same for the Chair's county. Perhaps he can tell us how many projects have been approved in Galway, the total amount of money that has been approved and the total amount spent.
- Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (25 Apr 2018) Éamon Ó Cuív: What is waiting in east Galway? Nothing has been approved. Nothing has been spent. What is waiting?
- Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (25 Apr 2018) Éamon Ó Cuív: No, that is the case in west Galway.
- Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (25 Apr 2018) Éamon Ó Cuív: Has the Minister any figure on what sum is waiting?
- Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (25 Apr 2018) Éamon Ó Cuív: Yes but with no disrespect, they knew it was coming. There was not too much competition for it.
- Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (25 Apr 2018) Éamon Ó Cuív: I know that. However, one would have thought that they would have a lot of stuff lined up, ready to rock and roll, because they knew. They got management money for all that time, did they not?
- Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (25 Apr 2018) Éamon Ó Cuív: It is the people who are losing out.
- Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (25 Apr 2018) Éamon Ó Cuív: I would appreciate it.
- Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (25 Apr 2018) Éamon Ó Cuív: I suppose we do not want to be here too long, but I have a few pertinent questions. Under this heading, I recall the famous €26 million that was given to the county councils in 2016 as prepayments. Has the Minister any idea how much of that remains to be spent as of April 2018?