Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 8 March 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government

Urban and Rural Regeneration: Discussion (Resumed)

Mr. Stewart Logan:

I would also make the point that that is essentially one of the main lessons that came through from the advisory group, namely, that the Town Centre First policy has to co-ordinate these different funds that are available. The local authorities and the local town teams have to put their projects together to actively pursue the available funding across quite a number of points. The URDF and the Rural Regeneration and Development Fund, RRDF, are the flagship ones but there is a plethora of other funding sources available, and if you have your project in place, you are in a much better position to acquire that funding.