Dan Boyle (Cork South Central, Green Party)
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Question 802: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the budgetary allocation for each of the public bodies, executive agencies, advisory bodies and task forces operating under his Department. [27787/06]

Dick Roche (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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The details requested in relation to the budgetary allocation in 2006 for the organisations operating under the aegis of my Department and which receive all or a significant part of their funding from the Exchequer are set out in the following table. Some further and more detailed information is contained in the Revised Estimates for Public Services 2006 published by the Department of Finance.

Information on the funding of organisations under my Department which do not receive budgetary allocations from the Exchequer, e.g. the Dublin Docklands Development Authority, the Housing Finance Agency, the Local Government Computer Services Board, the Local Government Management Services Board and the National Building Agency are contained in the Annual Reports and Audited Accounts of such bodies which are in the Oireachtas Library or available directly from the organisations concerned.

Local authorities receive substantial funding from the Department under a wide range of programmes. Payments are made to local authorities in some cases on the basis of definitive allocations for the year or in some cases on the basis of claims for recoupment having regard to indicative allocations notified to them. Many payments are made on the basis of claims for recoupment on approved projects independent of any system of annual allocations. Details of adopted revenue budgets of local authorities are available from the local authorities and are collated retrospectively and published by my Department. The most recent publication "Local Authority Budgets 2004" is available in the Oireachtas Library.