Written answers
Wednesday, 29 June 2016
Department of Environment, Community and Local Government
Departmental Functions
Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail)
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23. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the responsibilities transferred to other Departments since the Government was formed and the funding that transferred with these responsibilities broken down by Department and the subheads, as published in the first volume of the Revised Estimates; the responsibilities that transferred into his Department broken down similarly; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18458/16]
Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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The Rural Affairs and Social Enterprise (Transfer of Departmental Administration and Ministerial Functions) Order 2016 took effect from 9 June 2016.
This Order provides for the transfer of certain community-related functions from my Department to the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, which will be renamed as the Department of Arts, Heritage, Rural, Regional and Gaeltacht Affairs.
These functions relate to the LEADER programme; the CLÁR programme; the Town and Village Renewal Scheme; the Tidy Towns scheme; the Western Development Commission; the implementation of the report of the Commission on the Economic Development of Rural Areas; the dormant accounts fund and social enterprise.
The table sets out, pursuant to that Order, the functions and programme funds transferring from my Department’s vote as set out in the 2016 Revised Estimates Volume for Public Services:
| Progamme Area | Funds Transferred to DAHG (full year) € 000 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Current | Capital | ||
| E.1 Administration Pay | 2,338 | 0 | |
| E.2 Administration Non Pay | 586 | 97 | |
| E.6 Dormant Accounts | 2,320 | 2,006 | |
| E.7 Western Development Commission | 1,488 | 1,000 | |
| E.8 National Rural Development Schemes | 4,000 | 3,383 | |
| E.9 Leader Rural Economy sub Programme | 0 | 40,000 | |
| E.12 Tidy Towns Competition | 1 | 0 | |
| E.15 Town and Village Regeneration | 0 | 4,000 | |
| E.16 Other Services | 0 | 6,000 | |
| Gross | 10,733 | 56,486 | 67,219 |
| H7 Dormant Accounts A-in-A | 1,570 | 2,006 | 3,576 |
| H8 Dormant Accounts A-in-A | 750 | 0 | 750 |
| H9 LEADER | 4,000 | 4,000 | |
| NET | 58,893 |
Responsibility for environmental functions, including in relation to climate, waste, resource efficiency, air quality and environmental radiation policies will transfer to the Department of Communications, Energy & Natural Resources which will be renamed as the Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment. The statutory transfer of functions process to give effect to these changes in respect of the environment portfolio is underway, with the aim of completing the transfer as soon as possible. As the transfer of these functions has not been formally completed, the Environment programmes are still reflected in my Department’s Estimate.
No new functions will be transferring into my Department.
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