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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...

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

David Stanton: I thank the Minister for her response. I am glad this project is moving forward. If funding was granted in 2021 and it will not be ready until 2026, that is quite a while to wait. I understand that there are structural issues. The second question I asked was whether there are many other such projects in the Department where funding was granted quite a considerable while ago but where...

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

Heather Humphreys: When I allocate money to projects, the one thing I want to see is that it is spent. We engage regularly with the local authorities. I have to be honest here; some local authorities are excellent at getting funding, drawing it down and delivering projects and some are not quite as efficient with that process. We speak to local authorities regularly. I will tell any Deputies here who know...

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

Heather Humphreys: People get caught up on certain schemes. Substantial funding is also being provided to County Cork under a range of other schemes operated by my Department. Since 2020, €5.7 million has gone to Cork under the town and village scheme, and €32.3 million has been allocated to Cork under the rural regeneration scheme in the same period. Cork was allocated €3.4 million in...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Harbours and Piers (20 Jun 2024)

Harbours and Piers

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Harbours and Piers (20 Jun 2024)

Catherine Connolly: 40. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development further to Parliamentary Question No. 818 of 5 March 2024, for an update on the work of the steering committee tasked with monitoring progress on the development of the piers on Inis Oírr and Inis Meáin; the date of the next meeting; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26519/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Harbours and Piers (20 Jun 2024)

Catherine Connolly: Tá mé ag dul ar ais arís go cúrsaí na n-oileán. An uair seo, is mian liom tagairt a dhéanamh d’Inis Oírr agus Inis Meáin. Tá mé ag lorg eolais faoin choiste monatóireachta atá ann chun a chinntiú go mbeidh an obair atá ag teastáil déanta. I return to the issue of the islands. It is Inis Oírr...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Harbours and Piers (20 Jun 2024)

Heather Humphreys: I thank the Deputy for raising this matter again. As the Deputy is aware, Galway County Council is the responsible authority for the maintenance and development of pier infrastructure on the Aran Islands, including on Inis Oírr and Inis Meáin. There are regular meetings between officials from my Department and Galway County Council to discuss and monitor the pier development on...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Harbours and Piers (20 Jun 2024)

Catherine Connolly: I thank the Minister for her answer and the clarification that the steering committee is meeting regularly, including that it met on 18 June and will meet again on 16 July. I know the Minister realises why we needed an islands policy and an implementation plan. We also urgently need legislation ensuring that rights given to the islanders are all based on legislation. We are left with - I...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Harbours and Piers (20 Jun 2024)

Heather Humphreys: I visited the pier at Caladh Mór and saw the issues there. People tried to fix it years ago but trying to find the right solution has been difficult. We have gone through a long process. I am happy to try to do what I can on my side but Galway County Council also has a responsibility. My officials and Galway County Council officials continue to liaise and meet regularly on this...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Harbours and Piers (20 Jun 2024)

Catherine Connolly: The work was stopped for economic reasons. The briefing given by the Department in 2020 was that phase 3 did not go ahead due to the economic downturn. We are now looking again at phase 3. There was a delay because it had to go to the National Maritime College of Ireland and all of that. If the Minister thinks my frustration is bad, she should be at some of the meetings where there is...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Harbours and Piers (20 Jun 2024)

Heather Humphreys: Regarding Inis Oírr, in July I gave approval to issue a request for tender. The first stage has been completed. Stage 2 of the tender process was posted on 8 April. The closing date for receipt of all documentation is set for 12 July. However, Galway County Council has advised my Department that a four-week extension has been given, meaning the new date is 9 August. The assessment...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Harbours and Piers (20 Jun 2024)

Question No. 41 taken with Question No. 39.

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

Community Development Projects

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

David Stanton: 42. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development her Department’s plans, if any, to support the establishment and continued work of community councils across the country; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26446/24]