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- Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (15 Nov 2017) Michael Ring: That is the current expenditure.
- Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (15 Nov 2017) Michael Ring: Sorry. In capital, it is €3,383,000.
- Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (15 Nov 2017) Michael Ring: I wanted to give the Deputy the figures for 2016 and then for 2017. The 2017 Estimate is €11,383,000 and to date we have spent €1,212,000.
- Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (15 Nov 2017) Michael Ring: We are still monitoring that. The Deputy knows how the local authorities work and that a lot of receipts will be submitted in the last few weeks of the year. We expect that figure to go up significantly and I hope it will. I have allocated the money and am waiting for the local authorities to draw it down. I can only do what I can do, which is to allocate the money. I depend on the local...
- Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (15 Nov 2017) Michael Ring: They are the figures I was given. In fact, the relevant figure is 52%.
- Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (15 Nov 2017) Michael Ring: We will do a check on that and revert to the Deputy.
- Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (15 Nov 2017) Michael Ring: I certainly will.
- Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (15 Nov 2017) Michael Ring: On the Deputy's first question relating to the inspectorate, we have a team in place in the Department whose job it is to go into the local authorities to inspect some of the work that is done.
- Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (15 Nov 2017) Michael Ring: A small sample, yes and they are doing that.
- Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (15 Nov 2017) Michael Ring: I met that team recently and went through the issues with them. There will be spot checks, of course. I have to make sure that the money is well spent. On Leader, the projects approved number 429, with money spent to date amounting to €11 million. In terms of how much capital will be spent this year, to date the figure is €10,687,000.
- Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (15 Nov 2017) Michael Ring: The Deputy is correct. It is very small money. I expect that by the end of the year a total of 429 projects to the value of €11 million will have been approved. Today, payments will be made by the Department if projects begin to submit claims for funding. I hope we can get the figure up to €11 million.
- Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (15 Nov 2017) Michael Ring: No, not capital spending. I have to wait and see what they are going to-----
- Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (15 Nov 2017) Michael Ring: To date, we have spent €10.687 million.
- Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (15 Nov 2017) Michael Ring: I accept that the Deputy is quite correct. There will be another spend. That is why I took the €10 million out.
- Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (15 Nov 2017) Michael Ring: Again, I cannot. People have to do their job. I have done mine. The funding is there. I have regularised the scheme and made it easier to run schemes. I cannot but wait to see what happens. That is what I am doing today. Next week, we will see what the other spend will be.
- Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (15 Nov 2017) Michael Ring: Very clearly.
- Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (15 Nov 2017) Michael Ring: I would not accept it. The Deputy made a very valid point about the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport. I had to go in and clean up a terrible mess there. We could not have a sports capital programme because there was so much outstanding money. I had to bring in local authorities and take money from them. I had to talk to the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform because so...
- Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (15 Nov 2017) Michael Ring: The Deputy referred to the Leader programme. He raised a point I wished to raise. The Deputy is correct in that the biggest problem we had was that there was a large amount of outstanding money. When I sought funding for the sports capital programme from the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, I was asked how I could be allocated money when there was already money outstanding. ...
- Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (15 Nov 2017) Michael Ring: Deputy Canney is correct. I have dealt with the issues. There were problems with the programme, and we simplified it and made 31 changes. I cannot do any more for now. I met the Leader companies' national organisation last week and asked if there were any other difficulties. It felt that two-thirds of the 31 changes we made had been implemented and it is now seeing the programme freeing...
- Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (15 Nov 2017) Michael Ring: That is why I took €10 million out of the LIS and I intend to announce a number of other schemes between now and the end of the year to try to spend some of that money. As the Deputy knows, I have to ask the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform for permission to defer money from different schemes. It is not a simple process.