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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: CLÁR Programme (11 Jul 2019)

Dara Calleary: ...announcement but this is not the same as actual spending. What is it about schemes that we are making them so difficult for communities? I do not care about local authorities, as they are big enough and bold enough, but communities are being affected. If the Minister is saying that he has not got enough money, we will support him and the reintroduction of CLÁR was, of course, part...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: CLÁR Programme (11 Jul 2019)

Michael Ring: All the money for schools and community safety, play areas, including the multi-use games areas, MUGAs, community well-being and support, first responders and the mobility and cancer care transport scheme was spent last year. Why must I and my officials write to local authorities to ask them to spend the money they have received? Why are elected representatives not up on their feet at every...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: CLÁR Programme (11 Jul 2019)

Dara Calleary: 9. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the status of the review of the CLÁR programme; and if additional measures will be considered to be permissible under the programme. [30426/19]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: CLÁR Programme (11 Jul 2019)

Dara Calleary: ..., CLÁR, programme. It is a superb programme, invented by Deputy Ó Cuív, which has made a significant difference with a small amount of money. It is a good project. Where is that review at and how open is the Minister to new suggestions for assisting rural facilities through CLÁR?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: CLÁR Programme (11 Jul 2019)

Michael Ring: ...in 2001 were those which suffered the greatest population decline from 1926 to 1996. The Cooley Peninsula was also included on the basis of the serious difficulties caused in that area by foot and mouth disease. The average population loss in the original CLÁR regions over the period of 1926 to 1996 was 50%. In 2006, an analysis of the 2002 census data was carried out by the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: CLÁR Programme (11 Jul 2019)

Dara Calleary: We need to start looking at infrastructure and long-term developments, as well as some of the short-term measures the Minister has taken. For instance, Newtownwhite national school outside Killala in our constituency in County Mayo, a school the Minister is familiar with, has expanded significantly in recent years under the patronage of Educate Together, and it now needs to acquire land....

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: CLÁR Programme (11 Jul 2019)

Michael Ring: ...I had more funding for it. I need that funding now, which is why I am conducting this review. When I reintroduced CLÁR after many years, I brought it back in a limited way. The Deputy is correct and as Deputy Neville also mentioned we need to be able to examine schemes. I do not know whether we will be able to buy the land the Deputy referred to, because when I worked on the...