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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

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MEETING OF SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

Monday, November 09, 2015

QUESTION NO.18

QUESTION: Councillor E. Ó Broin

To ask the Chief Executive to provide a report detailing the total amount of money agreed between the Department of Environment and the Council under the traveller accommodation programme each year for the last five years; the total amount drawn down from the department at the end of each of the five years; the number of units provided with this funding each year; and the total underspend presented both annually and as a cumulative figure at the end of the five years.

REPLY:

The following table shows the Council's Capital Allocation  in respect of Traveller Accomodation for the last five years.

Traveller Accommodation Unit Capital Allocation and Drawdown:

Year Amount Scheme Comment  
  2011   €600,000   Turnpike   Group housing scheme: re-development of a residential caravan park to 3 group   house scheme     Final   recoupment paid by DOE 21st August 2014  
  2012   €250,000   5   Owendoher Haven, Ballyboden, Dublin 16: refurbishment   works further to vandalism   Bay 6,   Cherryfield Way  Re-development of day unit to a house   Turnpike   Group Housing Scheme: as   above     Final   recoupment paid by DOE 1st March 2012           Final   recoupment paid by DOE 1st May 2014       Final   recoupment paid by DOE 21st August 2014  
  2013   €50,000     Turnpike   Group Housing Scheme: As   above   Bay 6,   Cherryfield Way: As   above         Final   recoupment paid by DOE 21st   August 2014   Final   recoupment paid by DOE 1st May 2014    
  2014         €24,750   Turnpike   Group Housing Scheme: As   above   Final   recoupment paid by DOE 21st August 2014    
  2015         €0.00                
  2015       €746,007       (awarded   under the Jobs Stimulus programme)   Belgard   Road Group Housing Scheme     €304,883.96   has been applied for to date – monies have not been transferred from the   Dept. 11 month project commenced in   May 2015 and due to finish in April 2016  

 There was no underspend in any of the above years and in some cases they were overspends which were subsequently approved by the Department and recouped to the Council.

The allocations from the Department  for the past number of years were for schemes that had been approved to proceed, those under construction and also to complete schemes.