Michael Lowry (Tipperary North, Independent)
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195. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide one-off funding to Tipperary County Council to repair street lighting in housing estates which the council has not currently taken in charge; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39889/15]

Paudie Coffey (Waterford, Fine Gael)
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Tipperary County Council is provided with an annual funding stream from Local Property Tax proceeds which, along with other sources of revenue available to it, provides the Council with its financial capacity to fund local services. It is a matter for the Council to decide, in the annual budgetary process, how to spend their funding allocation, having regard to locally identified needs, competing demands and available resources.

In relation to the issues the Deputy has raised, I would refer him to the reply to Question No. 1068 of 3 November 2015, which sets out the position in relation to the taking in charge of housing estates by planning authorities.