Ruairi Ó Murchú (Louth, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

The Minister spoke about putting pressure on local authorities. Sometimes that is required. As Deputy Donnelly said, we need some kind of cross-departmental outlook for this. When we talk about LEADER funding, the town and village renewal scheme or the urban regeneration development fund, URDF, under the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage and what I would like to see done with vacant properties, on some level, we need a more macro approach to deal with dereliction and vacancies and to facilitate our smaller towns and even some of our larger towns to get more people to live in their centres. That needs to be done. It might be up to the Minister to draw that together.

Some €409 million has been spent so far under the RRDF. Is it still planned to spend €1 billion by 2027?

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