142 Mr. Collins asked the Minister for Finance the amount of Structural and Cohesion Funds allocated and taken up in each of the eight sub-regions from January 1994 to date. [18355/96]

I assume the Deputy is referring to EU Structural and Cohesion Funds. The Structural Funds are implemented under national sectoral operational programmes while the Cohesion Fund is project based; allocations are not, therefore, made on a regional basis. However, the regional breakdown of this type of expenditure is compiled on the basis of forecasts and outturns. The following table shows the data available to date to my Department on EU Structural and Cohesion Funds expenditure in the regions.

CSF 1994-1999

EU Structural and Cohesion Funds 1994 to 1996