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Tuesday, 25 March 2014

Department of Environment, Community and Local Government

Regeneration Projects Expenditure

Photo of Joan CollinsJoan Collins (Dublin South Central, People Before Profit Alliance)
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704. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide in tabular form the amount of funding his Department provided for each regeneration project in the State in 2012, 2013 and 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13735/14]

Photo of Jan O'SullivanJan O'Sullivan (Limerick City, Labour)
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My Department currently supports an ambitious programme of regeneration which seeks to address the causes of disadvantage in communities and large social housing estates and flat complexes through holistic programmes of physical, social and economic regeneration.

The amounts of regeneration funding provided by my Department to the various regeneration projects for 2012 and 2013 are set out in the following table:

-2012

€ million
2013

€ million
Ballymun Regeneration30.00018.920
Dublin City Council18.00010.380
Limerick Regeneration34.89029.440
Cork City Council11.1606.680
Waterford City Council 0.9800*
Sligo Borough Council1.9001.380
Tralee Town Council2.6902.410
Dundalk Town Council0.9700.210

*Regeneration programme concluded in 2012

This year some €70m is being provided to support regeneration programmes nationally. My Department is currently finalising the regeneration work programmes for 2014 with the authorities concerned and, pending the conclusion of this process, it is not possible to provide details of the individual allocations at this time.

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