Eamon Ryan (Dublin South, Green Party)
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Question 155: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if the 506 rural social scheme participant places, which remained available here at the end of 2005, have been filled. [4343/06]

Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail)
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The rural social scheme accepted its first participants in July 2004 and the numbers have been increasing steadily since then. At the end of 2005, there were 1,994 participants on the scheme and this number has since increased to a current total of 2,060. I expect that participant numbers will continue to increase and that all 2,500 places will be availed of in the near future.