Joe Costello (Dublin Central, Labour)
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Question 28: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the amount of funding allocated from his Department to each constituency for 2008; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2581/09]

Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail)
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As the Deputy is aware, my Department administers and delivers a wide range of programmes and measures, descriptions of which are available on its website at www.pobail.ie. My Department's provisional gross expenditure outturn for 2008 is €541.398m and the following table provides a breakdown for each of my Department's programme areas.

While expenditure under these programme areas takes place countrywide, it is not possible to give a constituency-by-constituency breakdown of this expenditure. For example, a number of my Department's programmes are delivered through agencies and other intermediary bodies that operate across county boundaries and in respect of which there is no comphrensive or detailed breakdown on either a county or constituency basis held by my Department. In addition, groups and organisations that receive grants directly from my Department are not necessarily constituted on a single-county/constituency basis.

In view of the wide range of my Department's schemes and programmes and the large volumes of applications received thereunder on an ongoing basis, I am not satisfied that the work involved in compiling and collating a full county-by-county (or indeed constituency-by-constituency) breakdown of expenditure would be feasible or justified. However, if the Deputy has any specific queries relating to a particular scheme, I would be glad to seek to provide him with relevant information in that regard.