Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein)
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215. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount of capital funding that is owed to each local authority; the quantity of funding owed for 6 months or less, more than 6 months and less than 12 months, more than 12 months, less than 18 months, more than 18 months and less than 24 months and more than 24 months in tabular form. [44471/22]

Peter Burke (Longford-Westmeath, Fine Gael)
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My Department has a wide and diverse business agenda, covering a broad range of functions, including local authority housing, voluntary housing, homeless services, estate regeneration, energy efficiency retrofitting, housing grants, rural water schemes, urban renewal/regeneration, and fire services.

My Department provides funding to local authorities on an ongoing basis as projects are progressed. Grant funding is provided primarily on the basis of vouched expenditure. As such, the position in respect of claims changes constantly as claims are received, validated and processed for payment. Accordingly, the specific level of detail sought is not readily available and its compilation would involve a disproportionate amount of time and work. If the Deputy is concerned regarding a specific claim from a local authority, I will have the matter explored further on receipt of the relevant information.

The capital expenditure provision for my Department in 2022 as set out in the Revised Estimates for Public Services 2022 published by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (DPER) and available at is €3,403m. These provisions will be used to advance capital investment across a range of programme areas within my Department’s remit.