Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail)
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80. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he will provide a list of the applications received in his Department from local authorities for funding for the open library initiative; the locations that were included in these applications; the amounts approved for each application; the amounts paid to date in each case; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30113/16]

Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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My Department received 27 applications under the My Open Libraryinitiative following a call for proposals from interested local authorities in June 2016. Approval-in-principle to proceed to procurement and commence works was given to local authorities for 23 projects; four applications (Rathdowney (Laois), Borris (Carlow), Carrick-on-Suir (Tipperary) and Donabate (Fingal) ) were withdrawn.

My Department is providing grant assistance of 75% of the total estimated eligible cost of each project. All works must be completed and expenditure incurred to facilitate the drawdown of grant aid. We expect the first drawdown requests to be submitted by local authorities from mid-November 2016. The applications approved to date and the indicative allocations are detailed in the following table.