Barry Cowen (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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78. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide in tabular from the total funding of flood defences per annum broken down by county in 2008-2014. [43618/14]

Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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Expenditure by the Office of Public Works in the period January 2008 - October 2014 on flood relief Capital Works schemes, amounts to approximately €216 million, and is shown by county in the following table. This expenditure covers major Flood Relief Schemes and also the Minor Flood Mitigation Works and Coastal Protection Scheme which commenced in 2009 under which Local Authorities are funded by the OPW to carry out small scale flood relief works in their administrative areas.

The table does not include a further amount of €1.639 million which has been paid to Local Authorities this year to date on foot of the Government Decision of 11^thFebruary 2014 that allocated specific funding for the repair of public coastal protection and flood infrastructure damaged in the storms in the period 13 December 2013 to 6 January 2014.

In addition, the OPW has spent approximately €41 million since January 2008 on other programmes related to flood risk management, principally the Catchment Flood Risk Assessment and Management (CFRAM) Programme of studies, that is not attributable to a specific county.

OPW CAPITAL EXPENDITURE ON FLOOD DEFENCE WORKS 2008 – 2014