John Browne (Wexford, Fianna Fail)
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175. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when an application for funding by a company (details supplied) in County Wexford will be approved under axis one; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20807/13]

Phil Hogan (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fine Gael)
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Following a thorough examination of project activity under the LEADER elements of the Rural Development Programme (RDP) I announced, on 24 April 2013, the lifting of the embargo on project approvals.

The completion of this review has facilitated the immediate issuing of RDP contracts for approximately €42 million worth of projects which have been approved by the Board of the Local Development Companies (LDCs) and have all the necessary requirements in place. 

The LDCs, including Wexford Local Development, have been allowed two weeks to notify my Department as to whether all of the projects within this €42 million are ready to proceed.

Once this exercise is complete my Department will then be in a position to establish the balance of the Programme and will notify each LDC of their allocation for the remainder of the Programme.