Paschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

-----a fund that over the years has seen 69 different applications, many of which we will be able to make progress on.

The rural regeneration fund is in place to progress the issues to which the Deputy referred. The Department of Rural and Community Development is well resourced and well funded. Under its stewardship, the type of increased investment for which the Deputy is calling is already under way and will continue throughout the country such that we will be able to make progress on many of the issues to which the Deputy referred, building on the progress that has already been made.

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