Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Between 2007 and 2014 is some time ago. The 2014 to 2022 allocation was €250 million and this programme is also worth €250 million. The €70 million transition programme is over two years, that is, this year and next year. It would be fair to say you would expect to have around 50% that already spent. According to our records, we have approvals of €16 million, which really only represents about 33% of the budget. Some of the LEADER companies are performing very well in getting their money out and others are not doing so well at all.

The Deputy's native county of Roscommon has a project allocation of €1.9 million over the two-year period. It has €667,000 worth of approvals, which accounts for 24%. County Kilkenny has €1.7 million in project allocation funding, for instance. It has approvals of €270,000. It has only about 15.69% of its funding allocated. I think, to be fair, there is sufficient money there currently.

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