Michael Ring (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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Question 533: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources when a grant will be awarded to a group (details supplied) in County Galway as has been promised. [21926/07]

Eamon Ryan (Dublin South, Green Party)
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All monies have been paid to the group on the basis of the vouched eligible capital expenditure documentation it submitted to my Department.

Under the Group Broadband Scheme (GBS), projects were approved for a capped amount of grant aid based on the project and financial plans. The draw down of such grant aid was, however, conditional on the production of documentation to vouch that the requisite eligible capital expenditure had been incurred within one year of the grant approval offer. There was no mechanism under the GBS for the award of supplementary payments to groups where a shortfall occurred between the vouched eligible expenditure incurred and the grant amount originally offered.