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- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Programmes (9 May 2024)
Joe O'Brien: I acknowledge and take the opportunity to thank all of those involved in CSP organisations. The past couple of years have been particularly challenging, and they have all stepped up to the plate. If the Deputy sends me more detail on the Blackrock situation, we can look into it. I do not know if appeal options were exhausted. To outline what we have been doing in terms of boosting CSP...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Library Services (9 May 2024)
Library Services
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Library Services (9 May 2024)
Alan Farrell: 11. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development for an update on her Department's support for community libraries; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20570/24]
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Library Services (9 May 2024)
Alan Farrell: I ask the Minister for her response.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Library Services (9 May 2024)
Heather Humphreys: Investing in our library service is a key priority for me, as Minister, and this is reflected in the new public library strategy, The Library Is the Place, which I launched in July last year. The strategy recognises that public libraries are at the heart of our communities. My Department is supporting this by providing a wide range of funding for library buildings, mobile library vehicles...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Library Services (9 May 2024)
Alan Farrell: I thank the Minister. Since my beginnings in politics in 2004, I have been incredibly proud to support improving our libraries across Fingal. One thing I was most proud of when I served as mayor in 2007 was the reopening of both Malahide and Garristown libraries. The library in Garristown is a wonderful facility with a fantastic history. The Minister has been very consistent in...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Schemes (9 May 2024)
Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I welcome what the Minister said but there is a need for local authorities to be more ambitious again. The Minister has a role in that but there is also a role for local authorities. As I said, some local authorities have taken up the mantle. While taking ownership of buildings and returning them to community use is important, part of this is also a need to take ownership of buildings and...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Schemes (9 May 2024)
Alan Farrell: I thank the Minister for her reply. I agree with the previous speaker, broadly. No Department is an island and this is a multi-Department issue with dereliction in our towns and villages. I commend the Ministers on their significant work and investment across the country, including in my constituency, Dublin Fingal, as it currently exists. I had the privilege of not that long ago...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Schemes (9 May 2024)
Heather Humphreys: I agree. I go through towns, see vacant and derelict buildings and ask why we are not doing something with these. They are a resource now because they are serviced, they have electricity, sewerage and water. We have been doing a lot of work with local authorities trying to get more people back living in the centre of towns. I am a great supporter of that because I believe there are huge...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Schemes (9 May 2024)
Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: That is precisely right. That is what a lot of the strategy needs to be. Retail is part of the solution but we also need families in our town centres. The two drive each other. I welcome the funding. We discussed it last week with the Heritage Council, which, along with several other stakeholders, was before the Oireachtas committee on the issue of dereliction. One area that got funding...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Schemes (9 May 2024)
Alan Farrell: I completely agree with what the Minister said. As she well knows, vibrant communities have people living in the middle of them. Especially in northern Fingal, the success of the national broadband project has meant that more and more people have the capacity to work from home, particularly in a post-Covid environment. Any public representative knows there are just as many people at home...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Schemes (9 May 2024)
Heather Humphreys: Fingal has got €2.7 million since 2016 under the town and village renewal scheme. Cork city got €1.5 million and Cork county got €7.9 million. There has been considerable investment in both counties. The town and village renewal scheme provides grants of up to €500,000 for large-scale projects. If you need more funding for bigger projects, there is the rural...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Schemes (9 May 2024)
Question No. 9 taken with Question No. 5.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Programmes (9 May 2024)
Departmental Programmes
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Programmes (9 May 2024)
Ruairi Ó Murchú: 10. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will provide an update on the assessment of applications under the community services programme, administered by Pobal, to include the numbers of applications received, the numbers that were successful and whether there will be additional funding provided this year, given the volume of applications received; and if she will...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Programmes (9 May 2024)
Ruairi Ó Murchú: Will the Minister provide an update on the assessment of applications under the community services programme administered by Pobal? Will she provide the number of applications received, the numbers that were successful, those still being assessed and any plans for providing additional funding before the end of this year? I do not think it will come as any surprise that my follow-up...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Control of Dogs (9 May 2024)
Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I welcome that and I have heard some pieces on this issue. As the Minister says, it is a very significant issue in terms of livestock and it obviously has a huge impact on livelihoods. No farmer wants to see their livestock attacked. Of course, we have also seen some very serious attacks on people, including children, in recent years. There have been some fairly horrifying attacks. As...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Control of Dogs (9 May 2024)
Heather Humphreys: The stakeholder group has had an initial meeting and a follow-up meeting as well. The members are looking at a number of issues. I am happy to hear what their views are. It is a diverse group and I will take on board the recommendations they put forward to me. Going back to the dog wardens, I have given more funding - an extra €2 million - to local authorities to upgrade the dog...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Schemes (9 May 2024)
Departmental Schemes
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Schemes (9 May 2024)
Pádraig O'Sullivan: 8. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if consideration would be given for larger local authorities such as Cork County Council to make additional submissions to the town and village renewal scheme to account for the larger population; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20404/24]