Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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Question 545: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the amount of EU funding received by his Department directly or for institutions, groups, organisations or bodies under his aegis in the past 20 years to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47244/08]

John Gormley (Dublin South East, Green Party)
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While my Department has had responsibility for the implementation of a number of capital expenditure programmes that qualified for EU funding over this period, the Department of Finance is responsible for drawing down associated European Regional Development and Cohesion funds which are then paid directly into the Central Fund as a capital receipt. Historic information on the extent to which EU assisted expenditure has been incurred for the entire period concerned is not readily available in my Department. Receipts received by this country since Ireland joined the EU can be obtained from the document Budgetary and Economic Statistics published by the Department of Finance which is available on the website www.finance.gov.ie.