Funding For Flooding Repairs Announced

Helping local communities recover from the recent severe storms, Minister for the Environment, Community & Local Government, Phil Hogan, 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 have now been issued 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 Council: €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

€62m 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 €70m 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 €8m for other transport and OPW infrastructure.

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."

(CD/JP)