Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail)
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221. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the expenditure by project and administration expenditure incurred under the 2007-2013 LEADER programme as at 31 December in each year over this period; the value of projects approved under this programme at this date annually; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3288/19]

Michael Ring (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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Table 1 below provides a breakdown of the expenditure by project and administration costs under the 2007-2013 LEADER programme for each of the years 2007-2013, as of 31st December each year. 

Table 2 below provides the number and value of project approvals under the 2007-2013 LEADER programme for each of the years 2007-2013, as of 31st December each year.

It will be noted that no projects were approved, or expenditure incurred, in the first two years of the programming period.LEADER is an EU-wide programme and, as can often be the case with such programmes, activity increases progressively over the course of the programme period.  

Table 1:  LEADER Project & Administration Expenditure for the period 2007-2013

Table 2: LEADER Project Approvals for the period 2007-2013