Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)
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867. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will report on the allocation in 2019 to North-South bodies in his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45892/18]

Richard Bruton (Dublin Bay North, Fine Gael)
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The Loughs Agency (of the Foyle, Carlingford and Irish Lights Commission) is a North-South body for which my Department and the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs in Northern Ireland are the joint sponsors.  The Agency is funded via both Departments on a 50/50 basis. My Department's portion of the Loughs Agency’s annual allocation is included in the Department’s Inland Fisheries subhead (E3). Details of the allocation to the subhead for 2019 will be published shortly in the Revised Estimates Volume.

I can advise the Deputy that my Department's allocation to the Loughs Agency for 2018 was €2.7 million.  Additional once-off availability of capital funding of up to €200,000 was also agreed by the Department to underpin two particular capital projects during the year.