Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 24 September 2025

Joint Committee on Social Protection, Rural and Community Development

Embracing Ireland's Outdoors - National Outdoor Recreation Strategy 2023-2027: Discussion

2:00 am

Photo of Johnny GuirkeJohnny Guirke (Meath West, Sinn Fein)

In the last round of the RRDF funding, the then Minister, Heather Humphreys, announced €164 million. She gave her own constituency of Cavan-Monaghan €32 million. I am talking about an imbalance in funding. County Meath, with a population of more than Cavan and Monaghan combined, got zero out of the €164 million. It had three projects in, totalling less than €10 million, and it did not get one penny. The work Meath County Council and the communities put into those three projects was massive. I think it was only one of two or three counties that got nothing. The former Minister gave her own constituency €32 million, which I have no problem with, but I have a serious problem with leaving a county like Meath behind that got zero out of €164 million. Could the witnesses explain that to me, please?

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