Written answers

Tuesday, 29 January 2019

Department of Rural and Community Development

Departmental Funding

Photo of Tony McLoughlinTony McLoughlin (Sligo-Leitrim, Fine Gael)
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541. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the allocation of funding per scheme administered by his Department in counties Sligo and Leitrim in each of the years 2016 to 2018 and to date in 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4211/19]

Photo of Michael RingMichael Ring (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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The figures requested by the Deputy for my Department have been collated in the following table. Where fields have been left blank this indicates that the scheme in question was not in operation in that particular year. For 2019, funding allocations have yet to be confirmed for the majority of schemes administered by my Department.

SchemeSligo 2016

Sligo 2017

Sligo 2018

Sligo 2019

Leitrim 2016

Leitrim 2017

Leitrim 2018

Leitrim 2019

Outdoor Recreation Infrastructure Scheme92,152.50970,275782,240226,092480,0001,050,15340,000496,019
CLÁR598,400351,216424,540274,800485,154451,465
Local Improvement Scheme496,158606,870.40487,947550,121
Demonstration Projects20,000
Digital Innovation Programme105,000
REDZ Schemes800,000300,000
Town and Village Renewal Scheme285,000970,7681,038,400310,000998,538637,520
Dormant Accounts Fund Social Enterprise Measure109,550153,00195,430
Rural Regeneration and Development Fund€687,000*
Social Inclusion and Community Activation Programme585,514585,514585,514585,514524,650524,650524,650524,650
Communities Facilities Scheme (CFS)64,50064,500
Re-cast RAPID64,50064,500
Community Enhancement Programme (CEP) Incl. Men’s Shed fund263,402Funding allocation to be confirmed189,068Funding allocation to be confirmed
* Two projects were approved for funding under the Rural Regeneration and Development Fund for Sligo in November 2018, for a total of €1,115,752. A figure of €687,000 of this allocation is scheduled to be spent in 2019.

LEADERhas a total budget of €250 million over the period 2014-2020. €220 million of this funding has been allocated to the Local Action Groups (LAGs) throughout the country who deliver the LEADER programme. The remaining €30 million is available for schemes to be delivered at a national level. The funding which has been allocated to the LAGs is provided for the duration of the programme, rather than on an annual basis. This provides greater flexibility to the LAGs in managing their resources.Sligo has been given an allocation of €7.655,647.81 for the duration of the programme; and Leitrim has been given an allocation of €5,998,474.74.

The Seniors Alert Scheme is demand led and funding is allocated to meet the demand under the Scheme and not divided on a geographical basis. My Department is in a position to give participant numbers by county only. The lot-based tender system for suppliers combines a number of counties into each of the seven lots, and payments are made to the suppliers in each of these lots. Therefore it is not possible to say with full accuracy how much funding has been given to each county.

The number of participants in the Seniors Alert Scheme in each county over the period requested are as follows:

Sligo: 161 (2016), 275 (2017), 447 (2018); Leitrim: 97 (2016), 178 (2017), 203 (2018).

Further information about all the schemes in my Department is available on my Department's website.

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