Kevin Humphreys (Dublin South East, Labour)
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717. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide a breakdown by local authority in tabular form of the amount each received in 2011, 2012 and 2013 respectively from the local government fund general purpose grant; the other grants that are made from the local government fund to local authorities; the cumulative sums for 2013 of any other of these grants that each local authority may have received separate to the general purpose grant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46928/13]

Phil Hogan (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fine Gael)
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General purpose grants are my Department’s contribution towards meeting the cost to local authorities of providing a reasonable level of services to their customers. The table below details the final general purpose grant payments from the Local Government Fund to all local authorities for 2011, 2012 and 2013.

The audited accounts of the Local Government Fund are available on my Department’s website at . The estimated expenditure from the Local Government Fund in 2013, as set out in the Revised Estimates for Public Services 2013 published by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, is €1.21 billion, including

- €640.9 million for General Purpose Payments to local authorities;

- €407.9 million for Road and Public Transport Infrastructure payments, the allocation of which is a matter for my colleague, the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport; and

- €61.5 million relating to other miscellaneous schemes including Group Water Scheme subsidies, Water and Waste Water projects, operating costs for the Vehicle Registration Unit of the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport and a residual amount for other priority national projects benefitting local authorities.

The table below sets out the amounts paid to date in 2013 to each local authority from the Local Government Fund for purposes other than (i) General Purpose Grants (which are already outlined above) and (ii) Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport allocations to local authorities in respect of roads and public transport infrastructure (details of which are not available in my Department).