Michael Moynihan (Cork North West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Minister for his engagement with the Charleville community, including Councillor Ian Doyle and the Charleville Chamber of Commerce, back in early September around the application for funding from the RRDF. It is a fantastic project worth €5.2 million and we hope it will be rolled out. There are a couple of issues. All these schemes are hugely beneficial to rural communities across the spectrum. Some rural communities got funding under the town and village renewal scheme and other schemes. Some of them started off two years ago at cost and now they have an allocation but that funding does not meet the cost of what they are trying to do. Is there a possibility of using unspent funding for 2022 to bolster the funding these communities got to give them an extra envelope of funding? It is important, especially for projects we could term shovel-ready that have planning and everything else but which need extra money because of the escalating cost of building.

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