Billy Timmins (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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Question 192: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if he will make a statement on the progress to date on the INTERREG IIIA Programme Ireland-Wales for rural development and diversification measures. [22731/04]

Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail)
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My Department is the measure leader for the rural development and diversification measure 1.2 of the INTERREG IIIA Ireland-Wales Programme. There is €9.8 million available to the region under this measure. As measure leader, my Department is a member of the programme steering committee which selects projects and is also responsible for the monitoring and control of the Irish element of projects in measure 1.2.

To date, there are nine approved projects under the measure with a grant value of €3.4 million. A further round of applications to the value of €2.85 million will be examined and selected in November. Spend under the measure to date is in excess of €1.3 million.