Brendan Smith (Cavan-Monaghan, Fianna Fail)
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524. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the proposals he has to provide further funding to the Cavan Monaghan Leader programme following the reduction in May 2013 of the original allocation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1642/14]

Phil Hogan (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fine Gael)
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On the 20 December I announced an additional €4 million under the LEADER elements of the Rural Development Programme 2007-2013 (RDP). Funding of €1 million is being targeted at the Gaeltacht areas which suffered a loss of funding when Meitheal Forbartha na Gaeltachta went into liquidation in 2011 and €3 million to the areas which experienced a reduction of greater than 15% in the revised allocation awarded in May 2013. The €3 million was apportioned using the relevant Local Development Company’s original percentage of the Programme. In this regard, Cavan Monaghan LEADER was awarded an additional €237,632. In line with the ‘bottom-up’ approach to rural development it is a matter for the Board of the LDC to decide on what projects should be funded with this additional funding.