Róisín Shortall (Dublin North West, Social Democrats)
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303. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of grants and subsidies provided to local authorities in 2017 and 2018, by local authority. [3642/19]

John Paul Phelan (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fine Gael)
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Central Government funding of local authorities presents a complex picture, with transfers, both current and capital, coming from a range of Departments and Offices for a variety of purposes. Some streams of funding are delivered directly from funding departments to local authorities, while others are routed through departmental agencies.

Most of the funding sourced from Central Government and provided to local authorities must be used for specified services. These can be grouped into five broad programme categories: recreational, education, environment, housing and transport. My Department does not collate specific information on the number of grants and subsidies provided to local authorities; this information may be available at individual local authority level. However, the table below sets out the figures included in the audited annual financial statements of local authorities for 2017 for both revenue (current) and capital income received from grants and subsidies.

These figures relate to 2017 only and include LPT self funding in the case of those local authorites where this obligation arises.  They do not include other LPT allocations.  Unaudited financial statements for 2018 are not due for submission to my Department until 31 March 2019, after which the audit of those statements will begin.

Table of Grants and Subsidies income for both Revenue and Capital to all local authorities in 2017 extracted from their audited annual financial statements

* This includes funding provided to Limerick City and County Council in its role as the shared service provider for the Housing Assistance Payment scheme.