Written answers

Monday, 9 September 2024

Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment

Departmental Expenditure

Photo of Rose Conway-WalshRose Conway-Walsh (Mayo, Sinn Fein)
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109.To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment for an update on the shared island dimension to the Community Climate Action Programme; to provide the total allocation; the expenditure to date; the amount that is contained with expenditure ceilings laid out in the Stability Programme Update and Summer Economic Statement and the amount that will have to come from additional funding; the date the project was started; and the projected date of completion, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter.[34813/24]

Photo of Eamon RyanEamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party)
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€3 million is being provided by the Shared Island Fund for Strand 1a of the Community Climate Action Programme (CCAP), which aims to support and empower communities to shape and build low carbon, sustainable communities in a coherent way on a cross-border or whole-island basis.

My Department sent out letters notifying the Local Authorities of the projects and funding amounts that had been approved the week commencing the 8 July. Local Authorities then moved into the contracting phase with the individual projects. As delivery is only expected to commence this month, there has been no expenditure to date. Strand 1a projects have 18 months to complete, and it is not envisaged that there will be additional funding from other sources.

- Start Date End Date
CCAP Strand 1a End September 2024 End March 2026*
*Individual projects may complete sooner than this 18 month timeframe.

The Government established the Shared Island Fund in Budget 2021, providing ring-fenced resourcing for the delivery of the all-island investment commitments and objectives set out in the Programme for Government and the National Development Plan 2021-2030 (NDP).

The Shared Island Fund aims to create a more prosperous, connected and sustainable island. The Fund provides significant new, multi-annual capital funding for investment on a strategic basis in collaborative North/South projects that will support the commitments and objectives of the Good Friday Agreement.

The Shared Island funding is captured within the overall NDP allocations, but is applied to the sectors approved as needed in each budgetary cycle.

The Department of Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform, in consultation with the Department of the Taoiseach, manages drawdown from the Shared Island Fund consistent with the capital allocations and commitments set out under the NDP. Updated NDP allocations out to 2026, published on March 27 this year, provide for total Shared Island Fund allocations of €150 million in 2024, €150 million in 2025 and rising to €190 million in 2026.

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