Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)
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Question 375: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will provide a complete list of grants made under the waste management infrastructural grant scheme; the value of each grant made in 2006; the estimated cost of the scheme in 2006; the cost for each year since the scheme started; the smallest, the average and the largest individual payment made in each year for which figures are given under the scheme; the projected cost of the scheme for 2007; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43418/06]

Dick Roche (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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The information requested is set out in the following tables.

Since 2002 my Department has allocated over €90 million in capital grants to assist local authorities in the provision of recycling and recovery services. The projects assisted include bring bank networks, civic amenity sites, materials recovery, composting and biological treatment facilities.

Projects for which grants have been allocated can take a number of years to complete as they go through the various project stages, e.g. design, planning, construction, and consequently claims will be submitted and monies paid typically over a number of years. In 2006 to date, and in respect of projects for which monies have been allocated since 2002, a total drawdown of €7,923,310.83 has been achieved.

The projected cost for the scheme in 2007 is €25m.