Brendan Griffin (Kerry South, Fine Gael)
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294. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the amount of funding that has been drawn down by Kerry County Council and spent directly by the Office of Public Works for works associated with the damage caused by the 2013-14 winter storms; if details of each job will be provided; if more funding will be provided to County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32358/14]

Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour)
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The Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (DoECLG) wrote to Kerry County Council indicating, based on the estimate submitted by the Council to that Department, that up to €1,226,920 is available to the Council to undertake the necessary repair works to damaged coastal protection and flood defence infrastructure.

The Council submitted an overall programme of works to the DoECLG detailing how it proposes to spend the total allocation and submitted the relevant elements of its programme to the Office of Public Works. OPW reviewed these having regard to related guidance issued by the DoECLG to the local authorities.

OPW confirmed to the Council on 22 May that the funding allocation of up to €1,226,920 is available from this Office for the coastal protection repair works as set out in its programme. Kerry County Council has not drawn down any of the allocated funding to date.

Please see below in tabular form details of the projects for which OPW has allocated funding to the Council.

Table 1: Projects for which OPW funding only involved.

Table 2: Projects for which OPW funding and funding from another Department is involved.