The Government will not be providing any extra resources to cover the administrative cost of the controversial €100 Water Conservation Grant, despite an insistence from Tánaiste Joan Burton's department that it could not perform the extra work from existing funds.
Speaking on RTÉ's This Week, Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform Brendan Howlin said the Department of Social Protection would have to cover the cost from "within the confines of the administrative budget they already have".
He said that it was the Government's expectation in this case that the department's staff would have to do more work without getting any extra funding.
It follows the revelation by RTÉ last month of documents showing that the administration of the conservation grant would lead to additional costs, including consultancy, legal and procurement costs, on top of the €100 pay out.
The revelation was contained in a letter from the Secretary General of Tánaiste Burton's department.
It said she needed the extra resources, which includes the cost of extra staff, to oversee and manage the payment of the new grant.
The letter was written in November by Niamh O'Donoghue, Secretary General at the Department of Social Protection, to her counterpart Robert Watt, at Minister's Howlin's Department of Public Expenditure and Reform.
She warned that in light of the Government's revised approach to water charges, her department will require additional resources for the Water Conservation Grant (WGC).
Ms O'Donoghue said delivery of the grant "imposes an additional burden on the department" and, "resourcing the processing/payment of WCG applications in 2015 and beyond needs to be addressed and cannot be accommodated from within the existing resource/admin budget allocation".
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