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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Funding (20 Jun 2024)

Departmental Funding

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Funding (20 Jun 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 52. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the extent to which she proposes to assist urban and rural community groups throughout the country through the various schemes available to her Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26459/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Funding (20 Jun 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 61. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the extent to which she hopes to continue to assist rural and community groups directly and indirectly, with particular reference to areas with social or economic deficiency; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26458/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Funding (20 Jun 2024)

Bernard Durkan: This question seeks to ascertain the extent to which the Minister proposes or hopes to engage throughout the country with local, voluntary, rural and urban communities to enhance their position, especially those in areas of social or economic deprivation.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Funding (20 Jun 2024)

Heather Humphreys: That is an awful lot missed. There is a heap of questions.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Funding (20 Jun 2024)

Cathal Berry: There is nobody in the Chamber.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Funding (20 Jun 2024)

Heather Humphreys: I am running out of answers here, but I will have one for the Deputy.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Funding (20 Jun 2024)

Cathal Berry: If the Minister speaks a little slower, we can give her more latitude for her answers.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Funding (20 Jun 2024)

Heather Humphreys: I propose to take Questions Nos. 52 and 62 together. My Department operates a range of programmes and schemes that support and assist urban and rural community groups throughout the country. The range of targeted investments and supports offered by my Department fund a wide range of initiatives that help promote rural regeneration, town and village regeneration, outdoor recreation,...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Funding (20 Jun 2024)

Bernard Durkan: I thank the Minister for her reply. Naturally, the question refers to the whole country, where I appreciate there are many challenging issues. There are questions of integration that need to be looked at carefully. Questions of social exclusion, or attempts at social exclusion, need to be looked at in particular. While I am obviously concerned about the whole country, I have a soft spot...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Funding (20 Jun 2024)

Heather Humphreys: I thank the Deputy. We have the community recognition fund. It is a fund responding to help communities that have taken in a lot of immigrants. They have facilitated them and worked well with them. I was delighted phase 2 of the Newbridge Family Resource Centre extension of the community building got €440,000 in 2023. Kildare has been allocated €830,000, which brings the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Funding (20 Jun 2024)

Bernard Durkan: I am glad the Minister mentioned McAuley Place, which is in my constituency, and Newbridge, which is in the Cathaoirleach Gníomhach's constituency. We are all-inclusive in this business. A huge amount of local voluntary effort and general effort is grant-aided in one way or another has been undertaken by people like those in McAuley Place. There are challenges that come forward in...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Community Development Projects (20 Jun 2024)

David Stanton: I thank the Minister of State for his response. Does he agree that there does not seem to be a clear policy with respect to community councils at, dare I say it, parish level? We are talking about LCDCs, which are at the level of the county or municipal district. Does he agree that we need to start drilling down to more localised bodies and looking at supporting those? Does he have any...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Community Development Projects (20 Jun 2024)

Joe O'Brien: I take the Deputy's point on the position of the LCDCs. They are at a fairly high level. I will take the opportunity to again encourage small groups to join the local PPN because, when they are in there, they have a pass into what the local authority has available. I refer to staff and training but also the grants I mentioned with which we support them. I will also mention the volunteer...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Community Development Projects (20 Jun 2024)

David Stanton: It may very well be that the very areas the Minister of State has mentioned are those that need the most support. If small local groups are already established, they are well on their way to drawing down grants, supports and so on. Does he agree that where there is nothing at all and where there is no local initiative, we need to put a structure in place whereby somebody goes into an area...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Community Development Projects (20 Jun 2024)

Joe O'Brien: In many respects, we have done what the Deputy is describing, albeit in a different way. The audit we have done is based on the CSO's small area population data. This is at the level of a large estate or a couple of hundred houses. We have based our audit not on what groups are in the area, but on socioeconomic deprivation. Two years ago, I launched the empowering communities programme....

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Funding (20 Jun 2024)

Departmental Funding

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Funding (20 Jun 2024)

David Stanton: 43. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development further to Parliamentary Question No. 70 of 26 September 2023, the amount of funding made available and drawn down to date under the rural regeneration and development fund on a project (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26445/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Funding (20 Jun 2024)

David Stanton: This question has to do with funding being made available by the Department but not being drawn down or only being drawn down after an awfully long time while costs increase dramatically in the meantime. I have highlighted one particular case with the Minister but there are many projects on the Department's desk where funding has been made available but has not been drawn down yet. What is...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Funding (20 Jun 2024)

Heather Humphreys: As the Deputy will be aware, the RRDF is a strategic capital investment fund that is key to the delivery of Ireland's rural development policy, Our Rural Future. The Youghal public library project was awarded funding of just over €4 million under the third call for category 1 proposals to the fund in 2021. The project will renovate and extend derelict buildings and a site on...