1756. Deputy Fionntán Ó Súilleabháin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the amount of funding allocated by his Department to Wicklow County Council in each of the last five years; if he will provide a breakdown of this funding on a year-by-year basis, detailing the schemes, programmes and initiatives under which the funding was provided, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57786/26]

Local authorities derive their income from a variety of sources including commercial rates, charges for goods and services, and funding from Central Government, including from my Department and other Departments and State Agencies. Most of the funding from Central Government to local authorities must be used for specified services.

My Department has a wide and diverse remit, including local authority housing, voluntary housing, homeless services, estate regeneration, energy efficiency retrofitting, housing grants, rural water schemes, urban renewal/regeneration, and fire services.

To achieve its business objectives, my Department allocates significant resources to a range of organisations, including local authorities. Some allocations, depending on the programmes concerned, are made on a national or other non-county basis in the form of grant funding.

Grant funding is provided primarily on the basis of vouched expenditure, as opposed to specific up-front annual allocations. All necessary requirements as detailed in grant assistance schemes must be met by the bodies/organisations concerned.

The funding provided by my Department to Wicklow County Council for the years 2020 to 2025 is set out in the attached tables.

Exchequer Funding to Wicklow County Council

Local Government Fund funding to Wicklow County Council 2020-2025