asked the Minister for the Environment the amount of the £1 million which the Government provided to the Dublin inner city interdepartmental committee that has been allocated or spent; and if he will state in respect of each specific allocation the name of the project, the organisation to which the money has been allocated and the sum involved.

As the information requested by the Deputy is in the form of a tabular statement, I propose, with the permission of the Ceann Comhairle, to circulate it with the Official Report. The following is the statement:

Inner City Fund. Allocations and Payments.

Could the Minister say if all this money has actually been spent or if it has simply been sanctioned?

Of the £1 million originally provided, practically the entire amount has been allocated, of which about £527,000 has actually been spent.

Is the Minister in a position to indicate whether the sum of £200,000 made available from this fund for inner city schools have been allocated and spent?

As far as I am aware it has been allocated and spent.

Is that information not in the brief?

I have a rather complicated and lengthy list of works which have been carried out and which are in progress. Out of the £1 million provided practically the entire amount has been allocated, and £527,000 of that amount has been spent. As far as the Department are concerned payments are usually made in arrear of demand but if a case is made, sometimes it is paid in advance.

I suppose it would be out of the question to think the remaining £473,000 might be spent within the next three weeks?

It will be spent as required. There will not be any holdup at our end.