Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail)
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1020. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the amount of current and capital funding respectively, allocated to the public participation networks in each of the years 2015 to 2018, in tabular form; the 2019 allocation by local authority; and the amount expended in each year to date by local authority. [54295/18]

Seán Canney (Galway East, Independent)
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Since 2015, current funding of up to €50,000 per annum has been allocated by my Department in respect of each PPN, provided this was supplemented by a minimum of €30,000 per annum from each local authority’s own resources. This funding is to be used for the cost of the employment of a Resource Worker, and ongoing operational costs such as office accommodation and training. There is no capital funding available to PPNs.

Set out in the following table is the amount expended since 2015 by each PPN.

The expenditure shown for 2018 is made up of actual expenditure from January to the end of September, with an estimated expenditure figure in respect of October to end December 2018. A full account of expenditure for 2018 will be supplied by each PPN in early 2019.

Work is currently underway in relation to the 2019 allocations, which will be notified to all PPNs shortly.