Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail)
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235. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the capital allocated to his Department in the 2017 Estimate by subhead; the amount spent to date by subhead; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52374/17]

Michael Ring (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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The total amount of capital funding allocated to my Department upon its creation was approximately €77 million. To the end of November, payments totalling €25.2 million have been made, as shown in the table below. It has been impressed upon Local Authorities the need to accelerate spending on their 2017 projects as a matter of urgency, and further significant recoupment requests have been received in my Department for processing.

In addition, €10 million has been allocated to the Local Authorities under the Local Improvement Scheme. I recently announced a further €7.4 million allocation to this scheme. It is a condition of this scheme that all works must be completed by the end of 2017.

*€10 million allocated from LEADER to Local Improvement Schemes.