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Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Rural Schemes (15 Jul 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 486. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the funding allocated to date through the various schemes controlled by her Department by county; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38963/21]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Rural Schemes (15 Jul 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 487. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the funding allocated to date through the various schemes controlled by her Department in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38964/21]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Schemes (15 Jul 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 488. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the degree to which her Department continues to target urban or rural deprivation by way of specifically designed assistance in financial terms; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38965/21]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Schemes (15 Jul 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 491. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the number of projects throughout the country in urban or rural areas currently in place through her Department aimed at addressing issues of social or economic disadvantage; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38968/21]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Schemes (15 Jul 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 492. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the degree to which she and her Department continue to liaise with urban and rural communities with a view to identifying the most appropriate means of offering support to meet their specific concerns particularly in the aftermath of Covid-19; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38969/21]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Schemes (15 Jul 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 493. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the success to date of the various initiatives introduced by her Department to address issues of social or economic deprivation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38970/21]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Schemes (15 Jul 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 494. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development her medium to long-term objectives to ensure that economic progress is spread evenly throughout the country in a sustainable way; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38971/21]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Schemes (15 Jul 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 495. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the extent to which her Department continues to be in contact with urban or rural based groups seeking to improve opportunities for employment and social development within the communities; the success of such schemes to date; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38972/21]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Schemes (15 Jul 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 504. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the number of persons in urban and rural areas likely to benefit from initiatives taken by her and her Department through the aegis of the various schemes in place; if any new schemes or extension to existing schemes are proposed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38982/21]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Digital Hubs (15 Jul 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 489. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the extent to which her Department has progressed the concept of digital hubs in order to minimise long commutes to work while at the same time replicating a work place environment both from the point of view of the employer and employee; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38966/21]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Digital Hubs (15 Jul 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 490. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the number of digital hubs envisaged by her Department throughout the country with a view to enabling persons to remain in their own communities while in a work place environment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38967/21]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Digital Hubs (15 Jul 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 499. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the number of persons currently benefitting from the use of urban or rural digital hubs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38976/21]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Schemes (15 Jul 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 496. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the expenditure to date under the town and village renewal scheme by county; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38973/21]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Regeneration Projects (15 Jul 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 497. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the expenditure to date under the Rural Regeneration and Development Fund; the extent to which the fund has attracted local indigenous support; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38974/21]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Regeneration Projects (15 Jul 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 498. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the number of participants currently benefitting from or likely to benefit from awards made by her Department under the Rural Regeneration and Development Fund; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38975/21]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Regeneration Projects (15 Jul 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 502. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development her plans to build on the success of her rural regeneration plans in all areas throughout the country; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38980/21]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Social Isolation (15 Jul 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 500. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the degree to which her Department continues to address the issue of rural isolation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38978/21]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Social Isolation (15 Jul 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 501. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the extent to which she and her Department continue to address the issue of urban isolation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38979/21]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Schemes (15 Jul 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 503. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the extent to which she can foresee further development and expansion of the town and village renewal scheme with a view to maximisation of beneficial impact; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38981/21]

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement: Minister for Finance and Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (15 Jul 2021)

Bernard Durkan: Madam Chair, my apologies for having to be in the House at the same time. I welcome the Ministers and thank them for coming before the committee. I have two questions. First, notwithstanding that many commentators in the Houses of the Oireachtas over recent years have questioned the wisdom of the 12.5% corporation tax rate and suggested that it should be changed, that it was unfair and...