Andrew Doyle (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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418. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if funding will be made available by his Department for playground facilities in an area (details supplied) in County Wicklow in view of the number of unfinished building developments in the area and the number of first time buyers in the area with young families; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18930/13]

Phil Hogan (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fine Gael)
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Funding may be available from my Department for rural areas, under the Rural Development Programme 2007-2013, to support certain community actions such as playgrounds.  Such actions under the programme are implemented by Local Development Companies contracted by my Department. They are the principal decision-makers in relation to the allocation of project funding and contact should be made with them directly. The contact is this case is Wicklow Partnership . Local authorities also provide services such as playgrounds. This is a matter for each local authority and my Department does not provide specific funding to individual local authorities towards this end.