383. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that in a letter to Sligo County Council dated 18 December 2013, his Department indicated that €1 million had been set aside from the local government fund for Sligo County Council and that the funding would be provided to the council in 2014 on the basis of an agreed long-term financial plan between the council and his Department, which would detail the council's proposals for dealing with the council's accumulated deficit and on condition of ongoing review of the implementation of the agreed plan by way of quarterly review meetings between the council and his Department; if his Department intends to provide further additional funding to Sligo County Council in the current year to assist the council in paying the significant legal debts and the costs imposed by the Supreme Court arising from the Lissadell rights of way legal case; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that Sligo County Council did not make any provision in its annual budgets in respect of legal and other costs for the Lissadell case; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that according to the most recent auditors report released in November 2013, the council's total revenue-capital debt had increased to €94 million; the avenues that are open to a local authority in such dire financial circumstances to acquire funding to settle such legal costs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16502/14]

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383. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that in a letter to Sligo County Council dated 18 December 2013, his Department indicated that €1 million had been set aside from the local government fund for Sligo County Council and that the funding would be provided to the council in 2014 on the basis of an agreed long-term financial plan between the council and his Department, which would detail the council's proposals for dealing with the council's accumulated deficit and on condition of ongoing review of the implementation of the agreed plan by way of quarterly review meetings between the council and his Department; if his Department intends to provide further additional funding to Sligo County Council in the current year to assist the council in paying the significant legal debts and the costs imposed by the Supreme Court arising from the Lissadell rights of way legal case; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that Sligo County Council did not make any provision in its annual budgets in respect of legal and other costs for the Lissadell case; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that according to the most recent auditors report released in November 2013, the council's total revenue-capital debt had increased to €94 million; the avenues that are open to a local authority in such dire financial circumstances to acquire funding to settle such legal costs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16502/14]

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