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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (17 Sep 2025)

Dara Calleary: Rent Supplement continues to play a key role in supporting families and individuals in private rented accommodation, with the scheme supporting 6,385 active recipients at the end of August 2025. The scheme provides short-term income support to eligible people living in private rented accommodation whose means are insufficient to meet their accommodation costs and who do not have...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Policies (17 Sep 2025)

Dara Calleary: I recognise the vital role secure employment plays in providing financial independence, increased confidence and social participation for disabled people. My Department provides a suite of employment supports to ensure access to the workforce for all disabled people, including the Deaf community. My Department's Intreo service is a single point of contact for all employment and income...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Funding (17 Sep 2025)

Dara Calleary: My Department provides a range of supports for organisations and employers to assist them in providing meaningful employment for disabled people. The organisation referenced is currently availing of my Department’s Wage Subsidy Scheme. In the past, the organisation has also been funded through Dormant Accounts Funding provided by my Department. The Wage Subsidy Scheme is a key...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Policies (17 Sep 2025)

Dara Calleary: The Programme for Government has clearly set out a timeline which commits to significantly increasing the income disregards for Carer’s Allowance in each Budget with a view to phasing out the means test during the lifetime of the Government. This is a major change to the Carer's Allowance and to the Irish social welfare system generally. It is important that we make progress in a...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (17 Sep 2025)

Dara Calleary: Carer's Allowance is the main income support scheme for family carers in the community. Normally, under the one payment per person rule, people eligible for multiple social welfare payments typically receive the higher of the available options. This reflects the fact that the payments are intended as an income support that arises due to a specified contingency that eliminates or significantly...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Funding (17 Sep 2025)

Dara Calleary: On 5 June, I announced the latest round of funding of over €17 million for the delivery of 212 projects under the Community Recognition Fund covering all 31 local authority areas. That announcement brought the total number of projects that have been awarded funding under the fund to over 1,400 in just over two years. A significant number of projects approved under the Community...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Community Development Projects (17 Sep 2025)

Dara Calleary: My Department provides a number of funding streams to support communities across a range of themes. The CLÁR programme provides funding for small-scale projects in designated rural areas. Measure 1 of the programme supports the development of community facilities and amenities, including community gardens and allotments. The 2025 programme is now closed for applications and I hope to...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Funding (17 Sep 2025)

Dara Calleary: The Community Centre Investment Fund (CCIF) has provided approximately €110 million since 2022 for the enhancement and refurbishment of existing community centres and the construction of new centres. I am committed to delivering further iterations of the scheme in the coming years in line with the commitment in the Programme for Government for this to become a permanent rolling...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Public Procurement Contracts (17 Sep 2025)

Dara Calleary: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1437 and 1438 together. My Department publishes quarterly reports on all procurement related payments over €20,000 in pdf format. The latest report, Q2 of 2025, is available at the following link, and the Q3 report will be published in early October 2025 - www.gov.ie/en/department-of-rural-and-community-development-...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Funding (17 Sep 2025)

Dara Calleary: The Rural Regeneration and Development Fund (RRDF) is a major capital investment programme which seeks to support large-scale, ambitious projects which can achieve sustainable economic and social development in rural areas. Calls for applications are sought under two categories, Category 1 and Category 2. Category 1 relates to larger scale ambitious capital projects with all necessary...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Funding (17 Sep 2025)

Dara Calleary: The Rural Regeneration and Development Fund (RRDF) is a major capital investment programme which seeks to support large-scale, ambitious projects which can achieve sustainable economic and social development in rural areas. To date the programme has allocated c.€593 million to 243 projects across Ireland. Of this amount c. €40.5 million has been awarded to 15 projects in County...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Data (17 Sep 2025)

Dara Calleary: My Department's CLÁR programme provides funding under a number of different measures for small-scale infrastructural projects in designated rural areas. The organisation referred to by the Deputy was awarded funding under the 2023 programme. The organisation subsequently sought to change a number of the elements of the approved project. Officials in my Department reviewed that request...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Straitéis 20 Bliain don Ghaeilge (17 Sep 2025)

Dara Calleary: The Government's 20-Year Strategy for the Irish Language 2010-2030 refers to examining the feasibility of introducing a voluntary code for bilingual labelling and packaging of all goods sold in Ireland, as a mechanism to develop the range of areas available in which people can choose Irish as a language of exchange. In this context, it is Foras na Gaeilge, through its ‘Gnó Means...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Data (17 Sep 2025)

Dara Calleary: My Department's CLÁR programme provides funding under a number of different measures for small-scale infrastructural projects in designated rural areas. The CLÁR programme in 2025 includes a range of different funding measures, including measure 1 which supports community facilities and amenities. Applications under measure 1 are submitted to my Department via the local...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Funding (17 Sep 2025)

Dara Calleary: Supports for walkways are available from my Department, in collaboration with local authorities and local development companies, through a range of different investment schemes. The Outdoor Recreation Infrastructure Scheme (ORIS) provides funding for the development and enhancement of outdoor recreational infrastructure such as walking trails, cycleways, water-based recreation sites and...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Data (17 Sep 2025)

Dara Calleary: My Department's CLÁR programme provides funding under a number of different measures for small-scale infrastructural projects in designated rural areas. The closing date for receipt of applications under CLÁR 2025 has now passed for all measures. My officials are assessing the applications received, including the project referenced by the Deputy in his question. This...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Data (17 Sep 2025)

Dara Calleary: My Department's CLÁR programme provides funding under a number of different measures for small-scale infrastructural projects in designated rural areas. The CLÁR programme in 2025 includes a range of different funding measures, including measure 1 which supports community facilities and amenities. Applications under measure 1 are submitted to my Department via the local...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Projects (17 Sep 2025)

Dara Calleary: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1447 to 1456, inclusive, together. The Community Centre Investment Fund (CCIF) has provided approximately €110 million since 2022 for the enhancement and refurbishment of existing community centres and the construction of new centres. Twelve new build community centres were approved funding of €30.2 million under CCIF in 2024. The attached...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Funding (17 Sep 2025)

Dara Calleary: My Department's CLÁR programme provides funding under a number of different measures for small-scale infrastructural projects in designated rural areas. CLÁR Measure 1 funds the development of community facilities and amenities. CLÁR Measure 2 funds mobility, cancer Care, community first responder and meals on wheels transport. Details of the number of applications and...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Funding (17 Sep 2025)

Dara Calleary: The Community Centre Investment Fund (CCIF) has provided approximately €110 million since 2022 for the enhancement and refurbishment of existing community centres and the construction of new centres. I am committed to delivering further iterations of the scheme in the coming years in line with the commitment in the Programme for Government for this to become a permanent rolling...