Helping Local Communities Recover from the Recent Severe Storms
Minister for the Environment, Community & Local Government, Phil Hogan TD, today (7 March, 2014) has informed local authorities of funding allocations under the €70m programme announced by Government on 11 February, for repairs and associated costs following severe weather from 13 December 2013 to 6 January 2014.
Letters issued today to the remaining local authorities detailing funding arrangements up to specified levels of allocation for repair and restoration programmes arising from the early phase of severe weather. The Minister already notified the majority of the funding to the seven worst affected local authorities last Friday.
The details for the local authorities who were notified today are as follows;
Local Authority Repair Funding Ceilings Clean-up/Response Costs
Carlow €16,000 €15,000
Cavan - €30,192
Cork City €48,500 €112,500
Dublin City €120,500 €80,000
Fingal Co Co €200,000 €5,000
Galway City €1,262,375 €187,000
Laois €207,500 €1,000
Leitrim €245,250 €80,650
Limerick €12,500 €72,000
Longford €156,000 €15,000
Louth €270,675 €64,000
Meath €80,300 €13,121
Roscommon - €20,810
Sligo €212,036 €40,400
Tipperary North €548,602 -
Tipperary South €677,938 €45,503
Westmeath - €80,145
Wexford €5,866,000 €33,500
Wicklow - €26,329
€62 million of this will be for local authorities in the areas worst affected by severe weather to help affected communities by restoring roads, coastal protection and other infrastructure and amenities/facilities/infrastructure.
The funding will enable local authorities to help affected communities by restoring roads, coastal protection and other infrastructure and amenities. The €70 m figure derives from local authority estimates of €16m to roads, €20m to restoring coastal protection infrastructure and €26m to other local authority and community infrastructure and includes €8 m for other transport and OPW infrastructure.
This is in addition to the €25 m which Government has already announced for Department of Social Protection’s Humanitarian Assistance schemes.
The arrangements for the drawing down of the funds by local authorities on foot of the Government decision were finalised following discussions between local authorities, the Department of the Environment, Community the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport, the Office of Public Works, the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, the Department of Finance and the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform.
Local authorities have been requested to prepare and submit a programme of works for the projects identified that will be submitted directly to the relevant funding Departments/ Agencies as mentioned above.
Minister Phil Hogan, TD said “The making available of this funding clearly demonstrates the Government’s financial commitment to respond to the needs of communities which were devastated by the storms. It is based on the requests from local authorities and facilitates them in immediately beginning a programme of prioritised works to assist the communities and areas worst affected. It will also help many areas which rely on tourism to get back in business.”
“The Government has provided very significant additional support to deal with the huge damage and loss caused by the storms. We are standing shoulder to shoulder with communities which have been affected.
ENDS
Allocations already notified Friday 28 February
Local Authority Repair Funding Ceilings Clean-up/Response Costs
Clare €16.205 m €608,878
Galway €9.491 m €477,750
Waterford €7.378 m €200,000
Mayo €6.396 m €509,000
Cork €3.980 m €868,700
Kerry €2.699 m €280,329
Donegal €1.380 m €150,000