Written answers

Wednesday, 18 May 2022

Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government

Departmental Expenditure

Photo of Paul McAuliffePaul McAuliffe (Dublin North West, Fianna Fail)
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75. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount that has been spent on capital funding schemes for the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25037/22]

Photo of Darragh O'BrienDarragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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Capital funding has been used to advance capital investment across a range of programme areas within my Department’s remit, local authority housing, voluntary housing, estate regeneration, energy efficiency retrofitting, housing grants, rural water schemes, urban regeneration, peatlands conservation and restoration, national parks & wildlife services and fire services.

Details of the capital expenditure for the past five years is set out in the table below:

- €m
2021 2,112
2020 2,197
2019 2,151
2018 1,774
2017 792

Includes €140.5m capital carryover from 2020

Includes €33.5m capital carryover from 2019

Further information on expenditure and multi-annual capital commitments is set out in the Department's Appropriation Accounts (Vote 34) for the relevant years which are published by the Comptroller and Auditor General and are available at: www.audit.gov.ie/en/find-report/publications/appropriation%20accounts/and selecting the relevant year.

The Department's 2021 Appropriation Account will be published later this year when the audit is completed.

Details of the allocations provided by my Department in 2022 are set out in the Revised Estimates for Public Services published by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform for the respective years and are available at the following link:

www.gov.ie/en/collection/e20037-revised-estimates/?referrer=http://www.per.gov.ie/en/rev/#2022.

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