Written answers
Tuesday, 27 April 2010
Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs
Community Development
12:00 pm
Róisín Shortall (Dublin North West, Labour)
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Question 270: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs, further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 164 and 165 of 31 March 2010, if he will provide a breakdown of the number of participants by county and by activity. [16744/10]
Pat Carey (Dublin North West, Fianna Fail)
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There are currently 2,600 participant places available under the Rural Social Scheme (RSS). All available places have been allocated and quotas have been assigned to each of the Implementing Bodies who manage the Scheme on my Department's behalf throughout the country. There are eight work measures under which participants under the RSS can undertake activities in their local communities. The Deputy will appreciate that the number of participants on the Scheme varies from week to week and the work undertaken in each county depends on the number of available participants and the specific needs within each community.
The table below sets out the number of participants on the Scheme per county for week ending 23rd April 2010 and the number of participants assigned under each work measure. TABLE
County | Maintenance and enhancement of waymarked ways, agreed walks, bog roads etc. | Energy conservation work for the elderly and the less well off | Village and countryside enhancement projects | Social care and care of the elderly, community care for both pre-school and after-school groups | Environmental maintenance works - maintenance and caretaking of community and sporting facilities | Projects relating to not for profit cultural and heritage centres | Community Admin/Clerical Duties | Any other appropriate community project identified during the course of the Scheme | Total RSS Participants per County |
Carlow | - | - | 6 | 4 | 5 | 3 | - | - | 18 |
Cavan | 5 | - | 20.5 | 15 | 29.5 | 2 | 4 | - | 76 |
Clare | 6 | - | 4.5 | 1 | 102.5 | - | 2 | - | 116 |
Cork | 30.5 | 4 | 42 | 29.5 | 49 | 11 | 9 | 3 | 178 |
Donegal | 42 | 4 | 47 | 11.5 | 103.5 | 5 | 9 | - | 222 |
Galway | 45 | 11 | 69 | 12 | 122 | 5 | 8 | 2 | 274 |
Kerry | 39 | 1 | 47 | 52 | 98 | 10 | 21 | 5 | 273 |
Kildare | 2 | - | 4 | 3 | 12 | - | 1 | - | 22 |
Kilkenny | 7 | - | 2 | 1 | 6 | - | 2 | - | 18 |
Laois | 2 | - | 8 | 1 | 10.5 | 2.5 | - | - | 24 |
Leitrim | 5 | - | 22 | 14 | 43 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 98 |
Limerick | 13.5 | - | 18 | 2 | 29 | 1.5 | 3 | 1 | 68 |
Longford | 7 | 2 | 9 | 5 | 10 | 15 | 5 | 2 | 55 |
Louth | - | - | 4 | - | 5 | 1 | - | - | 10 |
Mayo | 58 | 25 | 162.5 | 69 | 164.5 | 28 | 46 | 5 | 558 |
Meath | 1 | - | 2.5 | 1 | 8 | 1.5 | 2 | - | 16 |
Monaghan | 2 | - | 9 | 3 | 20 | 2 | 3 | - | 39 |
Offaly | 1.5 | - | 17 | 9 | 20 | 2 | 1 | 0.5 | 51 |
Roscommon | 12.5 | - | 45 | 15.5 | 57 | 7.5 | 5.5 | 1 | 144 |
Sligo | 9.5 | 6.5 | 31.5 | 17.5 | 38.5 | 8 | 8 | 4.5 | 124 |
Tipperary | 8.75 | - | 19 | 15.25 | 10.75 | 1 | 7.25 | 1 | 63 |
Waterford | - | - | 1 | 2 | 9 | - | - | - | 12 |
Westmeath | 4 | - | 10 | 6 | 10 | - | 3 | - | 33 |
Wexford | 1.5 | - | 11.5 | 7 | 11 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 37 |
Wicklow | 3 | - | 2 | 0.5 | 14 | - | 0.5 | - | 20 |
Totals | 305.75 | 53.5 | 614 | 296.75 | 987.75 | 115 | 147.25 | 29 | 2,549 |
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