Written answers
Wednesday, 21 November 2018
Department of Rural and Community Development
Social Inclusion and Community Activation Programme Funding
Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail)
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232. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the funding allocated to the social inclusion and community activation programme in each year since being established in tabular form; the allocation in 2018; the amount expended in each year and to date in 2018; the expenditure incurred under this scheme by county in each year and to date in 2018; and the share of funds provided by EU structural funding and the share financed by the Exchequer, respectively. [48554/18]
Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail)
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233. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the funding allocated to the social inclusion and community activation programme in each of the years 2018 to 2022, in tabular form. [48555/18]
Michael Ring (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 232 and 233 together.
The information requested is set out in the following table.
The Social Inclusion and Community Activation Programme (SICAP) commenced on 1 April 2015 in most parts of the country. Expenditure figures for Counties Meath in 2015 and Galway in 2015 and 2016 reflect the fact that a deliberative process was ongoing at the time, and SICAP commenced in Meath in May 2015 and in Galway County in January 2017.
Programme Implementers with an underspend in 2015, 2016 or 2017 were permitted to offset the underspend against the following years budget, leading to the funding issued being lower than the allocation in some cases.
Funding allocations and the Department's expenditure per county
| County | 2015 Allocation | 2015 Funding Issued | 2016 Allocation | 2016 Funding Issued | 2017 Allocation | 2017 Funding Issued | 2018 Allocation | 2018 Funding Issued |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Carlow | 402,321 | 402,321 | 536,428 | 533,928 | 536,428 | 536,426 | 547,157 | 546,719 |
| Cavan | 556,338 | 556,338 | 741,784 | 720,487 | 741,784 | 732,058 | 756,620 | 748,659 |
| Clare | 641,506 | 641,506 | 855,341 | 797,663 | 855,341 | 855,341 | 872,448 | 872,448 |
| Cork | 2,309,073 | 2,309,073 | 3,078,956 | 3,067,295 | 3,078,956 | 3,077,547 | 3,159,205 | 3,158,959 |
| Donegal | 1,480,935 | 1,480,935 | 1,974,580 | 1,920,151 | 1,974,580 | 1,970,067 | 2,008,916 | 2,008,802 |
| Dublin | 7,149,314 | 7,149,314 | 9,532,555 | 9,196,834 | 9,532,555 | 9,509,364 | 9,656,954 | 9,575,503 |
| Galway | 1,688,280 | 487,093 | 2,251,039 | 649,427 | 2,251,039 | 2,251,039 | 2,251,039 | 2,250,098 |
| Kerry | 1,222,199 | 1,222,199 | 1,629,598 | 1,626,089 | 1,629,598 | 1,628,742 | 1,629,599 | 1,629,599 |
| Kildare | 765,170 | 765,170 | 1,020,227 | 1,020,227 | 1,020,227 | 1,011,063 | 1,061,036 | 1,061,036 |
| Kilkenny | 455,860 | 455,860 | 607,813 | 605,399 | 607,813 | 607,453 | 632,126 | 631,889 |
| Laois | 423,048 | 423,048 | 564,064 | 559,205 | 564,064 | 554,502 | 586,627 | 586,625 |
| Leitrim | 393,488 | 393,488 | 524,650 | 481,609 | 524,650 | 516,760 | 524,650 | 511,290 |
| Limerick | 1,639,070 | 1,639,070 | 2,185,427 | 2,178,573 | 2,185,427 | 2,184,409 | 2,185,427 | 2,184,718 |
| Longford | 383,669 | 383,669 | 511,559 | 492,145 | 511,559 | 506,591 | 511,559 | 500,352 |
| Louth | 965,881 | 965,881 | 1,287,841 | 1,264,703 | 1,287,841 | 1,287,708 | 1,313,599 | €1,313,599 |
| Mayo | 930,908 | 930,908 | 1,241,211 | 1,215,481 | 1,241,211 | 1,231,152 | 1,269,911 | 1,262,231 |
| Meath | 235,799 | 235,799 | 371,072 | 369,743 | 371,072 | 367,624 | 393,336 | 392,609 |
| Monaghan | 464,453 | 464,453 | 619,271 | 612,427 | 619,271 | 614,852 | 631,656 | 628,332 |
| Offaly | 553,736 | 553,736 | 738,314 | 725,952 | 738,314 | 731,384 | 760,463 | 750,858 |
| Roscommon | 448,762 | 448,762 | 598,350 | 591,906 | 598,350 | 595,358 | 598,350 | 597,908 |
| Sligo | 439,136 | 439,136 | 585,514 | 554,930 | 585,514 | 585,503 | 585,514 | 585,507 |
| Tipperary | 841,838 | 841,838 | 1,122,450 | 1,116,186 | 1,122,450 | 1,105,851 | 1,173,386 | 1,157,231 |
| Waterford | 823,835 | 823,835 | 1,098,446 | 1,087,865 | 1,098,446 | 1,095,322 | 1,120,415 | 1,089,306 |
| Westmeath | 574,661 | 574,661 | 766,215 | 751,530 | 766,215 | 755,391 | 781,539 | 780,540 |
| Wexford | 1,276,311 | 1,276,311 | 1,701,748 | 1,697,683 | 1,701,748 | 1,698,940 | 1,701,748 | 1,677,328 |
| Wicklow | 972,584 | 972,584 | 1,296,777 | 1,245,474 | 1,296,777 | 1,288,405 | 1,314,319 | 1,309,618 |
| Totals | 28,038,175 | 26,836,988 | 37,441,230 | 35,082,912 | 37,441,230 | 37,298,852 | 38,027,599 | 37,811,764 |
All SICAP Lot funding to date has been financed up-front by the Exchequer. The Programme for Employability Inclusion and Learning (PEIL), being the current ESF operational programme, has allocated a total of €30 million in funding to the new SICAP programme, for the three year period 2018 to 2020. The first claim, in respect of the ESF allocation for 2018, is likely to be made in late 2019. The ESF funding will then be rebated to the Exchequer.
The provision of future funding is subject to the usual budgetary processes. However, I am confident that over the five year term of SICAP 2018-2022 funding of some €190 million will be allocated to the Programme.
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