Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail)
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640. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the amount of moneys prepaid by his Department for all schemes to local authorities towards the close of 2016 for work to be carried out in 2017; the amount of expenditure allocated to each county, by programme; the expenditure that had been incurred up to the end of September in each case; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43005/17]

Michael Ring (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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As part of the Government’s programme to support rural development, a number of initiatives including CLÁR, the Rural Recreation Scheme, the Town and Village Renewal Scheme, and REDZ (Rural Economic Development Zones) were launched by my Department during 2016.  In general, these initiatives were implemented through the Local Authorities.

All funding was made available in line with the sanction received from the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and on the basis of funding agreements signed with the Local Authorities.

The table below details the amount of funding allocated to each Local Authority by scheme in 2016 and the amount of expenditure incurred by each Local Authority up to the end of August 2017. It will be noted that not all Local Authorities applied for, or were eligible for, each scheme.

This is the latest expenditure information available at this time.However, my Department is engaging with the Local Authorities on an on-going basis to update the expenditure information.