Written answers
Tuesday, 21 October 2008
Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs
Departmental Expenditure
9:00 pm
Joe McHugh (Donegal North East, Fine Gael)
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Question 396: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the amount of money spent on capital investment by his Department for each year since 1997 in each of the 26 counties. [35388/08]
Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail)
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As the Deputy is aware, my Department was established in June 2002. Details of capital expenditure, as shown in the annual Revised Estimate Volumes (Provisional Outturns) from 2002 to 2007, based on the current structure of my Department's Vote, are set out in the table below along with the capital allocation for 2008.
| Capital Expenditure 2002-2007 and Capital Allocation 2008 (€m) | |||||||
| 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | |
| Developing Communities | 14.1 | 8.6 | 2.0 | 4.5 | 4.7 | 8.1 | 10.3 |
| Tackling Drugs Misuse | 4.3 | 14.6 | 8.3 | 7.3 | 7.2 | 8.1 | 9.0 |
| Rural Development | 8.2 | 24.8 | 38.5 | 46.0 | 65.8 | 57.0 | 53.8 |
| Gaeltacht and Islands Development | 59.6 | 44.7 | 45.1 | 44.9 | 55.4 | 60.7 | 72.0 |
| Promotion and Maintenance of the Irish Language | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.2 | 1.0 |
| North-South Co-Operation | 6.8 | 5.7 | 8.5 | 11.2 | 11.8 | 13.1 | 11.6 |
| Administration | 0.9 | 1.0 | 1.2 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.8 |
| Total | 94.0 | 99.4 | 103.7 | 114.3 | 145.1 | 147.3 | 158.5 |
The Deputy will also be aware that expenditure within these programme areas takes place across a wide range of schemes and projects countrywide, descriptions of which are available on my Department's website at www.pobail.ie. Funding is not necessarily given on a county-specific basis in all cases and it is not feasible to attribute the full capital allocation to particular counties. However, if the Deputy has any specific query relating to a particular scheme I would be glad to provide relevant information to him in that regard.
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