Tommy Broughan (Dublin North East, Labour)
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509. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the amount provided to local authorities in 2013; the breakdown of the expenditure allocated to each local authority from the fund; the total projected allocation from the fund for 2014; and a breakdown of the allocation for each local authority. [3714/14]

Tommy Broughan (Dublin North East, Labour)
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512. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the expenditure projected for the Local Government Fund in 2014; the level of input to the fund from the local property tax and the road tax. [3718/14]

Phil Hogan (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fine Gael)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 509 and 512 together.

I assume that Question No. 509 refers to general purpose grants from the Local Government Fund. 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.

€640,903,434 was paid to local authorities from the Local Government Fund in general purpose grants in 2013 . The table below de tails the general purpose grant payments from the Local Government Fund to all local authorities in 2013.

The amount to be paid to local authorities from the Local Government Fund for general purpose grant s in 2014 is €281m; this figure recognises the removal of water related costs from local authorities to Irish Water in 2014. The table below details the proposed general purpose grant allocations from the Local Government Fund to all local authorities in 2014.

The estimated total expenditure from the Local Government Fund in 2014, as set out in the Revised Estimates for Public Services 2014 is €1.779 billion; Local Property Tax income and Gross Motor Tax Receipts are estimated at €550m and €1,160m respectively in 2014.