Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 23 January 2014
149. Deputy Brendan Griffin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will list all the individual grant amounts and the corresponding recipients that he has approved to issue through LDCs in Kerry since 2011; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3311/14]
View answerThe LEADER elements of the Rural Development Programme 2007-2013 (RDP), which is delivered by Local Development Companies (LDCs) on my Department’s behalf, must comply with Council Regulation 1290/2005 which requires certain details on beneficiaries of schemes co-funded by the Programme to be published on the Managing Authority’s website. The Managing Authority for the RDP is the Department of Agriculture Food and Marine (DAFM). The publication of the overall list of beneficiaries’ was subject to legal challenge in the European Court of Justice (ECJ) and, following an ECJ judgment on the matter in 2010, only the overall amount provided to the LDCs is published on the DAFM website. This is outlined in Table 1 below.
Table 1:
|
Local Development Company |
2011 |
2012 |
2013 |
2014 |
|
South Kerry Development Partnership |
€1,167,358 |
€1,226,912 |
€2,352,913 |
€0.00 |
|
North and East Kerry Development |
€1,028,322 |
€1,210,065 |
€2,073,775 |
€18,631 |
The LDCs are the decision making body under the LEADER elements of the RDP, except in respect of projects with grant aid in excess of €150,000, which are subject to prior approval by my Department. Details of the recipients are included in Table 2 below.
Table 2:
|
Recipient |
Year |
Amount |
|
- |
2011 |
0 |
|
Kilcummin Looking Good |
2012 |
€161,250 |
|
Barradubh Community Field Organisation |
2012 |
€500,000 |
|
Fossa Community Centre Ltd |
2012 |
€295,396 |
|
Nagle Rice Community Centre Ltd |
2013 |
€500,000 |
|
Cromane Community Field Development Group |
2013 |
€194538 |
|
FM Marine Services |
2013 |
€168,392 |
|
- |
2014 |
0 |
My Department has an Agreement in place with South Kerry Development Partnership for the delivery of the Walks Scheme. The funding is set out in table 3 below.
Table 3:
|
Local Development Company |
2013 |
2012 |
2011 |
|
South Kerry Development Partnership |
€398,735 |
€385,199 |
€358,735 |
