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- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rural Schemes (27 Oct 2022)
Heather Humphreys: The Deputy's choice of language is very insulting to rural communities across the country.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rural Schemes (27 Oct 2022)
Heather Humphreys: No, it is not. The Government policy is working.We have spent more than €100 million on remote working facilities. We have 295 remote working facilities. I was in Donegal-----
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rural Schemes (27 Oct 2022)
Heather Humphreys: I was in a remote working hub in Donegal not too long ago. A person there had returned home from America to live with their family and to work remotely.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rural Schemes (27 Oct 2022)
Heather Humphreys: I was in Bree, County Wexford, where two people had come back from Australia to live in their community. They are working for Australian companies from a remote working hub supported by funding from my Department.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rural Schemes (27 Oct 2022)
Heather Humphreys: There are issues in certain areas. We will examine them and deal with them.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rural Schemes (27 Oct 2022)
Heather Humphreys: I do not have a copy of the report to release, so I cannot give the Deputy an answer on that. What I can tell him-----
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rural Schemes (27 Oct 2022)
Heather Humphreys: -----is that where there are problems, we will address them. When I was Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation, the Border area was way behind every other area, so we developed a Border regional development fund. This is a specific fund for the six counties along the Border and it has worked. Employment in those regions has increased. Where there are issues or difficulties, we...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (27 Oct 2022)
Heather Humphreys: I thank the Deputy for raising this matter. Earlier this year, my colleague, the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage, Deputy Darragh O'Brien, launched the Croí Cónaithe fund. The fund is initially focused on supporting the refurbishment of vacant homes in regional towns and villages. It is a key funding support under the town centre first policy that was jointly...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (27 Oct 2022)
Heather Humphreys: The scheme is a really good one. All present know from walking through rural towns and villages that there are derelict houses in them. A bit of encouragement would bring people back to living in the centre of towns and villages. It is welcome that the scheme has been extended to rural houses. I acknowledge that. The Minister for housing, Local Government and Heritage was committed to...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (27 Oct 2022)
Heather Humphreys: The scheme has been rolled out through the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage to the local authorities, which are administering it at a local level. I am not sure of the position with regard to the clawback. It is right that there should be a clawback. I agree with that principle in the context of a person selling a house. The idea is that the person will live in the...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Community Development Projects (27 Oct 2022)
Heather Humphreys: I cannot agree with what the Deputy said. If he was going around the country visiting communities, like I am doing-----
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Community Development Projects (27 Oct 2022)
Heather Humphreys: -----talking and listening to people-----
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Community Development Projects (27 Oct 2022)
Heather Humphreys: We are supporting communities.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Community Development Projects (27 Oct 2022)
Heather Humphreys: We are helping communities realise their ambitions. There has been unprecedented investment in rural Ireland. The Deputy is out of touch to be making those accusations. To be quite honest, he is completely out of touch.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Community Development Projects (27 Oct 2022)
Heather Humphreys: We are listening to people. I will go back and answer the other questions. Pobal assessed every single one of those applications.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Community Development Projects (27 Oct 2022)
Heather Humphreys: Of course we did, because this is what people wanted. I will not-----
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Community Development Projects (27 Oct 2022)
Heather Humphreys: This is what communities wanted.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Community Development Projects (27 Oct 2022)
Heather Humphreys: We consult and we talk to people. I listen to the Deputies, hear what is needed on the ground and we develop the support for communities and rural Ireland. There has been unprecedented investment, as I said earlier. We will look at this scheme. We just allocated the funding. We will look at the findings and if we need to make changes or make it better, we are open to listening to...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Community Development Projects (27 Oct 2022)
Heather Humphreys: The Deputy should consult with the communities and hear what they want on the ground. This is a bottom-up approach. Like everything we do in the Department of Rural and Community Development, it is bottom-up. It is led by communities and it is supporting and empowering them. We want to continue to do that and deliver for them. I apologise to the Acting Chair.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rural Schemes (27 Oct 2022)
Heather Humphreys: I thank the Deputy for raising this matter. Our Rural Future 2021-2025 is the most ambitious rural development policy for Ireland in decades. It was published in March 2021 and contains more than 150 measures across the whole of Government for both short-term recovery and long-term development. Delivery of the Our Rural Future rural development policy is monitored through a series of...