Madam Speaker, concerning part (a) of the question, I have been informed that the projects and programmes relating to Rodrigues Island have been included in the total amount of the Public Sector Investment Programme 2025-2026 to 2029-2030. In this regard, for Financial Year 2025-2026, a total provision of Rs785 million has been made in the Performance-Based Budget Estimates 2025-2026 under the “Programme 0205: Rodrigues and Outer Islands” as capital grant to Rodrigues Regional Assembly for appropriation by the National Assembly. Madam Speaker, I wish to inform the House that in its budget for Financial Year 2025- 2026, the Rodrigues Regional Assembly (RRA) made a provision of Rs990 million for the implementation of capital projects. However, taking into account the implementation capacity as well as the state of preparedness of the projects, government has provided Rs785 million.

22 In fact, for the current financial year, that is, 2024-2025, a total sum of Rs1.285 billion was voted by the National Assembly as capital grant to the Rodrigues Regional Assembly. However, as at date, the latter has only spent Rs479 million, that is, 37% of the allocated budget. As regards part (b) of the question, following discussions at technical level, a total sum of Rs5.605 billion was initially agreed between the Ministry of Finance and the RRA for Financial Year 2025-2026 as follows – (i) Rs4.82 billion for recurrent expenditure, and (ii) Rs785 million for capital expenditure. However, on 10 April 2025, the RRA presented a budget of Rs6.086 billion in the Regional Assembly, of which Rs 5.096 billion was for recurrent expenditure and Rs990 million for capital expenditure. On 18 April of this year, government considered the proposals and has agreed to increase the provision for recurrent expenditure by Rs180 million to Rs5 billion while the sum for capital expenditure has been maintained at Rs785 million. The Rodrigues Regional Assembly has already been informed of the budget allocation agreed by government for Financial Year 2025-2026 and the Rodrigues Regional Assembly will amend its budget accordingly. Madam Speaker, I wish to inform the House that, in addition to the Rs785 million provided as capital grant for Financial Year 2025-2026, an amount of around Rs1.6 billion has also been included in the Budget for various other projects. These include Rs1 billion for the construction of the new runway at Plaine Corail and Rs340 million for water-related projects as well as Rs60 million for drain projects in Rodrigues.

I am sure you can come back on all this during the debate. I will proceed with the next question therefore. We don’t have much time left! I think we have done B/538 already. So, the hon. Second Member for Rivière des Anguilles and Souillac! QUARTIER MILITAIRE POLICE STATION – IT EQUIPMENT & OPERATING SYSTEM – UPGRADING

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