Joanna Tuffy (Dublin Mid West, Labour)
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Question 505: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if local authorities have recently been issued with a directive to withdraw funding which was allocated for significant projects and schemes at pre-contract level; if so, if the directive applies to allocations over the past number of years during which the funding was not drawn down as various schemes were incomplete; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32495/08]

John Gormley (Dublin South East, Green Party)
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No such general directive has been issued by my Department in respect of local authority capital projects funded by my Department.

My Department wrote to local authorities in July 2008 to set aside old loan approvals for capital works where no funding had been drawn down on foot of these approvals. Authorities who wished to renew such applications for borrowing sanction were requested to reapply to my Department specifying any new requirements.