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

I am happy to take on board the Deputy's suggestions of other criteria we can look at for areas that are not included. We did a review and we found the population had actually increased, which is good to see, but it is also important to say there are other funding streams from my Department. The Deputy will be very familiar with the community centres investment fund and the good support communities are getting from it because only last week we made the announcement. Some €33 million has been invested in the upgrade and development of 270 community centres nationwide. I know the Deputy was very anxious a number of those community centres be supported. I was glad we were in a position to support a number of the centres the Deputy had mentioned. We continue to keep all of these things under review.

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