Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Does the Minister accept that the CLÁR programme deals with the cost-benefit issue that often arises in rural areas? Does he also accept that his Department which has responsibility for water and sewerage services could reintroduce elements of the programme to ensure, for example, that areas without group water schemes would have them and that villages without sewerage schemes would have them?

With regard to the RAPID programme, is the Minister willing to make €100,000 a year available to each of the 51 RAPID AITs, as was done previously from the dormant accounts fund, particularly in view of the fact that there is almost €100 million of non-committed moneys in the fund?

This money could be put to good use in the 51 most deprived communities in the country.

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