Written answers

Tuesday, 17 January 2017

Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht

Departmental Funding

Photo of Dara CallearyDara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail)
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777. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will outline all funding announcements made by her or her Department for projects in County Mayo since January 2015, in tabular form; the details of each project; the status of the project at 31 December 2016; the amount of funding drawn down at 31 December 2016; and the reason for the delay in the project or funding draw down. [1053/17]

Photo of Heather HumphreysHeather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
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My Department administers and delivers a wide range of programmes and measures, descriptions of which are available on its website at . The main funding announcement in relation to projects funded by my Department is made in the context of the publication of the annual Revised Estimates Volume. This contains details of the annual funding allocation to my Department at subhead level, as well as other information in relation to how that funding is allocated.

Expenditure under these programme areas is recorded and accounted for on a national basis and it is not possible to give a regional or county-by-county breakdown of that expenditure. For example, a number of my Department’s programmes are delivered through agencies and other intermediary bodies that operate across county boundaries and in respect of which there is no detailed breakdown on a county basis held by my Department. Groups and organisations that receive grants directly from my Department are not typically constituted on a single-county basis.

In view of this, and because of the wide range of my Department’s schemes and programmes, and the large volumes of payments and grants involved, it is not possible to provide the information sought. However, if the Deputy has specific queries relating to a particular programme or grant, I will endeavour to provide him with relevant information in that regard.

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