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Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Funding (15 Jul 2025)

Dara Calleary: Using both an allocation from the Shared Island Fund and a new capital budget line created by my Department for cross-border co-operation, my Department will be supporting the development of new Irish language and Ulster Scots language and culture projects in 2025 and beyond. The Department is currently in the process of developing proposals for this funding in order to determine if they...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Irish Language (15 Jul 2025)

Dara Calleary: An allocation of €4.75m is available in 2025 under my Department's Irish Language Support Schemes for the development of Irish language and cultural centres outside the Gaeltacht. The purpose of the capital assistance provided under this scheme is to strengthen the Irish language as a community and family language in line with the objectives of the 20 Year Strategy for the Irish...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Irish Language (15 Jul 2025)

Dara Calleary: In the last six years, the budgetary allocation for the Gaeltacht and Irish Language Division of my Department has increased from €58.067m (2020) to €106.73m (2025), representing an increase of almost 84% in that period. This has enabled enhanced support of key initiatives such as the statutory Language Planning process and the roll-out of the Strategy for the Irish...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Strategies (15 Jul 2025)

Dara Calleary: The list below provides details on my Department's policies, strategies and actions plans which compliment funding schemes and interventions intended to improve the economic and social development of rural, urban and Gaeltacht communities. Further information on all of these documents is available on my Department's website www.gov.ie/drcdg.Our Rural Future, Rural Development Policy: a...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Schemes (10 Jul 2025)

Dara Calleary: I agree with the Deputies. In the interests of fairness, we have provided €170 million for a scheme that was not funded prior to 2017. We are working with local authorities. Neither Monaghan nor Tipperary are offenders in this regard, but quite a number of local authorities have a cost per road that is way above the national average. Believe it or not, there are also local...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Schemes (10 Jul 2025)

Dara Calleary: Since 2021, 4,800 roads have been dealt with under LIS. I agree that we could do with extra funding. We are actively pursuing that and ensuring that people have proper access to their homes and farms.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Community Development Projects (10 Jul 2025)

Dara Calleary: The community centre investment fund, CCIF, is my Department's primary funding vehicle for new and existing community centres. It was first introduced in 2022 in recognition of the need for a dedicated funding stream to support investment in the hundreds of community facilities that are at the heart of both rural and urban communities. In Cork, my Department has provided more than...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Community Development Projects (10 Jul 2025)

Dara Calleary: I do not disagree with the Deputy. That is why we have invested in the community centre investment fund and why we have put money aside for new centres, new builds, in communities such as Ballyvolane. Twelve of those have been funded and Rylane in Cork is one, and that is why I hope to have another scheme next year for new builds. I am more than happy to work with the Deputies here and the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Community Development Projects (10 Jul 2025)

Dara Calleary: It is clear that Deputy O’Flynn has done a lot of work. The Minister of State, Deputy Buttimer, tells me he taught in the area so he knows it very well. I cannot give Deputy Gould a guarantee. Local authorities have to prepare plans but judging by the scoping work, site identification work and community meetings, it sounds as though they are doing the necessary preparatory work. It...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Schemes (10 Jul 2025)

Dara Calleary: I propose to take Questions Nos. 93, 95 and 105 together. The three letters most feared by my officials are LIS. We are actively reviewing the LIS, looking to make it more effective and to deliver more consistently. It is a is a key support to rural communities in improving non-public rural roads and laneways that are not typically maintained by local authorities. We reintroduced the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Stádas na Gaeilge san Eoraip (10 Jul 2025)

Dara Calleary: Is é sin an rud is tábhachtaí faoin gceist seo. Tá dúshláin ann chun iarrthóirí a fháil a bhfuil na scileanna acu chun obair ar chaighdeán teanga an Aontais Eorpaigh. Tá an caighdeán sin tábhachtach. Tá oifigigh i mo Roinn i gcónaí ag obair leis na hinstitiúidí tríú leibhéil ionas go...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Enterprise Support Services (10 Jul 2025)

Dara Calleary: I thank Deputy Timmins for his question. Our Rural Future is the whole-of-government policy for sustainable rural development in Ireland. More than 170 measures are outlined to support sustainable economic and social development and environmental and cultural well-being across all our rural areas. The delivery of these measures is clearly based on a cross-governmental approach, with a...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Enterprise Support Services (10 Jul 2025)

Dara Calleary: I cannot speak specifically to the Airbnb question. As I said, however, my Department has invested significantly in remote work and remote working facilities. We will be publishing a new national hub strategy, which will include measures to underpin ongoing sustainable development. As we discussed here previously, hubs in 2025 are different from what they were in 2020, and we need to make...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Enterprise Support Services (10 Jul 2025)

Dara Calleary: Absolutely, I agree. The cost base of every business is of concern to the Government. With regard to the small rural regionally based builders, we made it very clear that they need to be given support from the banking system to allow them to make the kinds of developments in rural areas the Deputy has spoken about and that we all want to see. The Minister, Deputy Browne, will be writing...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Scéimeanna Tacaíochta (10 Jul 2025)

Dara Calleary: Tuigim go mór cé chomh tábhachtach is a bhí scéim na mbóithre áise le haghaidh mhuintir na Gaeltachta. Gabhaim buíochas leis an Teachta as ucht a cheiste fúithi. Mar a bhí luaite sa fhreagra i mí an Mhárta 2025, tá scéim na mbóithre áise curtha ar fionraí le roinnt blianta anuas. Faoin scéim sin,...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Scéimeanna Tacaíochta (10 Jul 2025)

Dara Calleary: Tá obair bhunúsach déanta ag m’oifigigh sa Roinn. Tá muid ag scrúdú na meicníochta a bheidh muid in ann úsáid chun cuidiú leis na bóithre sin, go háirithe dóibh siúd a bhfuil cónaí orthu ar na bóithre sin nó a úsáideann iad le haghaidh obair feirmeoireachta. Mar a dúirt mé,...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Scéimeanna Tacaíochta (10 Jul 2025)

Dara Calleary: Nuair a thiocfaidh Roinn na Gaeltachta go dtí an Roinn caiteachais phoiblí, is é sin an rud a bheidh muid ag déanamh. Is mian linn go mbeidh deiseanna breise ar fáil do mhuintir na Gaeltachta agus muintir na n-oileán. Tá sé tábhachtach go mbeidh na deiseanna breise sin ar fáil do mhuintir na Gaeltachta amháin agus go mbeidh siad in ann...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Stádas na Gaeilge san Eoraip (10 Jul 2025)

Dara Calleary: Tacaíonn mo Roinn le raon tionscnamh chun an Ghaeilge a chur chun cinn mar theanga oibre agus oifigiúil de chuid an Aontais Eorpaigh agus chun a chinntiú go mbeidh soláthar leanúnach de dhaoine leis na cáilíochtaí agus scileanna cuí ar fáil do na seirbhísí teanga lena dtacaítear le húsáid na teanga in...