Brendan Griffin (Kerry South, Fine Gael)
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86. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide additional funding for flood prevention repair works for County Kerry, as the current budget is almost exhausted with many outstanding works; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34977/14]

Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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Following the period of coastal storm flood damage from 13 December, 2013 to 6th January, and the Government Decision of 11 February, 2014 to provide funding for damage repairs, the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (DoECLG) wrote to Kerry County Council indicating that, based on the estimate submitted by the Council to that Department, 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 of €1,226,920 and submitted the relevant elements of its programme to the Office of Public Works. This programme of works was approved and it is open to the Council to draw down this funding on the basis of its actual expenditure and contractual commitments on the approved repair projects.

There has been no decision by the Government to date to allocate any further funding for repair works arising subsequent to other storm events.