Paudie Coffey (Waterford, Fine Gael)
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To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide in tabular form, the total amount of capital funding his Department has allocated to Waterford for the years 2011 and 2012; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57294/12]

Paudie Coffey (Waterford, Fine Gael)
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To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide in tabular form, the total amount of capital funding his Department has allocated to Waterford for the years 2011 and 2012; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57292/12]

Richard Bruton (Dublin North Central, Fine Gael)
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The principal channels of capital funding from my Department to Waterford are through the operations of Enterprise Ireland, Science Foundation Ireland, IDA Ireland and the two local County Enterprise Boards.

In the case of Enterprise Ireland, funding is provided for a range of enterprise development activities, including R&D and Innovation funding such as research collaboration and commercialisation, High Potential Start-Up Support, Company Capability Development, Lean and Expansion projects, and Internationalisation. The total amount approved by Enterprise Ireland for these various activities in Co Waterford was €6,636,147 in 2011 and 5,601,742 in 2012 to date.

For Science Foundation Ireland, capital payments by that agency to Waterford Institute of Technology were €2.173m in 2011 and €5.449m in 2012 to date. .

Regarding the County Enterprise Boards, the capital allocation to Waterford City CEB in 2011 was €339,771 and to Waterford County CEB in that year was €356,806. For 2012 to date, the allocations have been €469,461 in the case of the City CEB and €408, 944 in respect of the County CEB.

With regard to Waterford funding by IDA Ireland, in 2011 that agency paid grants of €115,819 in 2011 and expended €22,193 on other capital works. For 2012 to date, they paid grants totalling €1,443,474 and expended €6,757 on other capital works.