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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Rural Regeneration and Development Fund: Discussion (27 Nov 2019)
Éamon Ó Cuív: That does not clarify the matter. This is a rural development fund. My understanding of state aid rules is that, as the people involved in LEADER will be able to confirm, permission is needed for anything above €200,000 that is enterprise-related. That is a general rule. As such, Mr. Forsyth is saying that any project that would create actual jobs and exceeded €200,000 would...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Rural Regeneration and Development Fund: Discussion (27 Nov 2019)
Éamon Ó Cuív: How many of those applications were successful?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Rural Regeneration and Development Fund: Discussion (27 Nov 2019)
Éamon Ó Cuív: That is important. I have a funny feeling that there is a distortion because of the State agencies.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Rural Regeneration and Development Fund: Discussion (27 Nov 2019)
Éamon Ó Cuív: I asked about the Minister's role.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Rural Regeneration and Development Fund: Discussion (27 Nov 2019)
Éamon Ó Cuív: We had a similar process in the Department I was in previously; it was not totally dissimilar to Ms Rooney's Department. At ministerial level, a request we always made of the advisory board was in respect of all the applications that were refused. In a number of cases, the officials and I sat around the table to determine the basis for refusal. We asked the advisory board to clarify the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Rural Regeneration and Development Fund: Discussion (27 Nov 2019)
Éamon Ó Cuív: How many decisions to refuse have been turned into a "Yes" having been looked at it again?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Rural Regeneration and Development Fund: Discussion (27 Nov 2019)
Éamon Ó Cuív: I raise an issue that arose in my county. The local authority, which seems to be the big player here, decided, before it went to the people, and all of this is meant to be people-based, that only the big towns such as Ballinasloe and Loughrea could compete in this process. In terms of Connemara, I cannot recall whether it was Clifden or Carraroe. No matter how much the small place wanted...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Rural Regeneration and Development Fund: Discussion (27 Nov 2019)
Éamon Ó Cuív: I was looking at the advisory board of the rural fund. It includes the Departments of Housing, Planning and Local Government, Communications, Climate Action and Environment, Business, Enterprise and Innovation, Agriculture, Food and Marine, and Transport, Tourism and Sport. That is five Departments and Ms Rooney's Department is also included, so that is six. Why was the Department of...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Rural Regeneration and Development Fund: Discussion (27 Nov 2019)
Éamon Ó Cuív: Were all the applications from other Departments?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Rural Regeneration and Development Fund: Discussion (27 Nov 2019)
Éamon Ó Cuív: I know the National Parks and Wildlife Service was, but obviously that was in the Department. Many people do not realise that but it is.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Rural Regeneration and Development Fund: Discussion (27 Nov 2019)
Éamon Ó Cuív: No. Can the lead agency or another State body in association with the lead agency put up 100% of the matching funding?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Rural Regeneration and Development Fund: Discussion (27 Nov 2019)
Éamon Ó Cuív: This is Nile Delta stuff. Mr. Forsyth should try to figure that out. It is like the Nile Delta.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Rural Regeneration and Development Fund: Discussion (27 Nov 2019)
Éamon Ó Cuív: No, I asked about the spend. That was only €22 million of the more than €50 million the Department had.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Rural Regeneration and Development Fund: Discussion (27 Nov 2019)
Éamon Ó Cuív: Would the Department expect to spend another €18 million?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Rural Regeneration and Development Fund: Discussion (27 Nov 2019)
Éamon Ó Cuív: If I take €10 million from €50 million, it is €40 million, and the original figure was actually over €50 million.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Rural Regeneration and Development Fund: Discussion (27 Nov 2019)
Éamon Ó Cuív: It was initially €55 million.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Rural Regeneration and Development Fund: Discussion (27 Nov 2019)
Éamon Ó Cuív: That was what the Department got eventually.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Rural Regeneration and Development Fund: Discussion (27 Nov 2019)
Éamon Ó Cuív: That is €42 million and, as €22 million is spent, the Department would have to spend as much in 20 days as it spent in 11 months.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Rural Regeneration and Development Fund: Discussion (27 Nov 2019)
Éamon Ó Cuív: What about the outturn?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Rural Regeneration and Development Fund: Discussion (27 Nov 2019)
Éamon Ó Cuív: Have there been advance payments to achieve that, as happened in previous years? Will all the work be invoiced and inspected before it is paid for?