Written answers
Wednesday, 17 May 2006
Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government
Housing Grants
9:00 pm
Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Independent)
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Question 328: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the amount awarded to each local authority in respect of disabled persons grants in 2005; the amount allocated and not taken up in 2004; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18705/06]
Dick Roche (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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The following tabular statement gives details of the combined capital allocation for disabled persons and essential repairs grants notified to each local authority in 2004 and 2005 and the combined expenditure on the schemes in 2004 by each local authority. In 2004 the capital allocation for these schemes was €73.1 million and actual expenditure notified to the Department by local authorities was €55.4 million. The capital allocation notified to authorities for 2005 was €74.5 million.
The combined capital allocation to local authorities for the disabled persons and essential repairs grant schemes represents not a capital grant, but the total amount which authorities are authorised to spend on the schemes in the year in which the allocation is made. Expenditure on the grant schemes is funded by the two-thirds recoupment available from my Department together with the one-third contribution from the revenue resources of the local authority.
The final out-turn reflects the expenditure by local authorities on approved applications. The initial allocations presented the local authorities' best estimate of the likely level of grant approvals during 2004. However, some grant approvals by local authorities may not subsequently be taken up by applicants. In addition, if there are delays in applicants completing the approved works, either due to a delay in getting contractors or for other reasons, the ultimate spend may arise in later years.
Local authorities were notified in June last of their combined capital allocation for 2005 and were requested on a number of occasions to notify the Department if it became evident that the allocation notified was likely to be inadequate or surplus to requirements. Increased allocations were approved for a number of local authorities. The Department stressed the need to ensure that, in the light of the high level of demand for these grants, the available allocation is expended in full and to ensure that the level of their approvals was such that would facilitate expenditure of the full allocation.
| Local Authority | Allocation 2004 | Expenditure 2004 | Allocation 2005 |
| € | € | € | |
| County Councils | |||
| Carlow | 786,000 | 321,503 | 960,000 |
| Cavan | 3,022,383 | 1,746,542 | 1,800,000 |
| Clare | 1,222,000 | 1,216,097 | 1,660,000 |
| Cork (N) | 2,150,000 | 831,794 | 1,500,000 |
| Cork (S) | 3,830,000 | 1,159,501 | 2,500,000 |
| Cork (W) | 1,335,000 | 995,000 | 1,000,000 |
| Donegal | 3,300,000 | 2,542,510 | 4,300,000 |
| Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown | 1,649,000 | 1,603,630 | 2,250,000 |
| Fingal | 1,280,000 | 1,278,527 | 1,520,000 |
| Galway | 3,000,000 | 2,571,217 | 2,880,000 |
| Kerry | 1,760,000 | 965,372 | 1,760,000 |
| Kildare | 1,050,000 | 1,092,053 | 1,500,000 |
| Kilkenny | 819,000 | 664,900 | 780,000 |
| Laois | 2,630,677 | 2,632,074 | 2,100,000 |
| Leitrim | 2,670,000 | 2,042,035 | 2,600,000 |
| Limerick | 1,050,000 | 1,034,000 | 1,140,000 |
| Longford | 1,355,000 | 704,982 | 900,000 |
| Louth | 3,026,000 | 725,138 | 1,120,000 |
| Mayo | 1,600,000 | 1,530,423 | 1,600,000 |
| Meath | 1,200,000 | 1,046,095 | 2,880,000 |
| Monaghan | 1,400,000 | 1,358,451 | 1,450,000 |
| North Tipperary | 1,715,000 | 756,477 | 1,740,000 |
| Offaly | 637,072 | 641,940 | 1,255,000 |
| Roscommon | 1,800,000 | 1,634,914 | 1,800,000 |
| Sligo | 427,000 | 241,449 | 505,000 |
| South Dublin | 2,950,000 | 2,396,871 | 3,600,000 |
| South Tipperary | 3,115,000 | 1,981,521 | 3,100,000 |
| Waterford | 1,675,000 | 1,368,181 | 1,020,000 |
| Westmeath | 1,200,000 | 1,282,268 | 1,350,000 |
| Wexford | 928,000 | 836,792 | 1,050,000 |
| Wicklow | 2,800,000 | 1,604,060 | 2,000,000 |
| City Councils | |||
| Cork | 1,800,000 | 1,350,460 | 1,800,000 |
| Dublin | 10,550,000 | 10,880,377 | 13,500,000 |
| Galway | 980,000 | 1,183,716 | 1,300,000 |
| Limerick | 810,000 | 634,880 | 900,000 |
| Waterford | 600,000 | 401,031 | 650,000 |
| Borough Councils | |||
| Sligo | 865,000 | 115,711 | 700,000 |
| Town Councils | |||
| Bray | 30,000 | 26,074 | 30,000 |
| Total | 73,105,132 | 55,399,536 | 74,500,000 |
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