Pat Breen (Clare, Fine Gael)
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Question 220: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his plans to introduce a regeneration scheme for villages and towns that have been bypassed by motorways, that is, Clarecastle and Newmarket on Fergus, County Clare, or that will be bypassed in the future, that is, Crusheen, County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19538/10]

Ciarán Cuffe (Dún Laoghaire, Green Party)
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Under the Urban and Village Renewal Programme 2000 - 2006, grant assistance was provided by my Department to local authorities for a range of interventions to upgrade the fabric of the built environment in cities, towns and villages. Final funding allocations under this Programme, which ended in early 2008, involved total EU and Exchequer co-financed expenditure of over €158 million.

The 2007 - 2013 Urban and Village Regeneration Programme, administered by my Department, has been deferred due to budgetary constraints.