Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein)
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To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the amount of money that has been sent back to central funds by local authorities due to the inability of these authorities to match funding on a county basis for each of the past five years providing the most recent figure; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42712/12]

Phil Hogan (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fine Gael)
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It is a matter for each local authority to manage the operation of schemes in their areas from within the grant allocations provided.

Allocations to local authorities are monitored and reviewed on an on-going basis.  My Department monitors expenditure under all schemes and any savings resulting from an under-spend by local authorities are, where possible, made available for re-allocation to authorities whose allocations have been fully committed or spent.  I am not aware of any recoupment to central funds from allocations that have not been taken up due to difficulties that individual local authorities may have had in raising matching funds.