Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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Question 100: To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of funding allocated to the Border, midlands and western region and the southern and eastern region under the national development plan; the amount spent in each region to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9812/06]

Brian Cowen (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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Table 1 outlines the profiled expenditure allocated and the latest expenditure data reported to the operational programme monitoring committees for each operational programme under the NDP for the Border, midlands and western region. Profiled expenditure relates to the period January 2000 to December 2006. Expenditure data relate to the period January 2000 to end June 2005. Therefore, when analysing the results, the Deputy should be aware that five and half years of expenditure data are being compared with seven years of profiled data. Expenditure data to the end of December 2005 will become available in April prior to the spring meetings of the monitoring committees.

Profiles and expenditure data includes all NDP sources of funding: Exchequer, EU and private.

Table 2 sets out the position in respect of the southern and eastern region.

Profiles and expenditure data includes all NDP sources of funding: Exchequer, EU and private.

With respect to the eventual outturn for the NDP, I expect the end-2006 position for the key economic and social infrastructure OP and employment and human resources development OP to be close to or above targets for both regions. The position for the PEACE and technical assistance OPs will be close to their target levels of expenditure for both regions at the end of 2006. The regional programmes and the productive sector OP are unlikely to achieve their end 2006 targets, particularly for those measures that are not co-funded by the Structural Funds. The Deputy should note that expenditure on the EU co-financed measures under the operational programmes will continue until the end of 2008 and will need to be considered in determining progress.