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

The CLÁR scheme works extremely well. It depends on how much of one's country is allocated in CLÁR as well. We can compare one set of figures with different county sizes. I appreciate Cork is a big county. The number of projects approved in Cork since 2016 was 130 and they got funding of €4.184 million. I do not have the map of what areas in Cork are designated as CLÁR but some counties have a lot more CLÁR areas because they had a great deal more population decline. That is why they have a bigger CLÁR area. It depends how many applications the local authorities send in as well. It depends on what they look for too. We try to be as fair as we can here. We try to allocate the resources that we have in the best way that we can. It goes through an assessment process within my Department.

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