Written answers
Wednesday, 29 June 2016
Department of Environment, Community and Local Government
Regeneration Projects Funding
Dessie Ellis (Dublin North West, Sinn Fein)
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14. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to provide a breakdown of the current programme of the 2016 allocation for existing commitments on regeneration projects which is €50 million. [18511/16]
Damien English (Meath West, Fine Gael)
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As the Deputy will be aware, regeneration projects funded by my Department target the country’s most disadvantaged communities, including those defined by the most extreme social exclusion, unemployment and anti-social behaviour.
My Department currently supports a programme of large-scale regeneration projects in Dublin, Cork and Limerick and smaller projects in Tralee, Sligo and Dundalk. The 2016 allocation for existing commitments on regeneration projects is €50 million, including allocations of €28m for Limerick, €11m for Cork City, €5m for Dublin and €2m each for Dundalk, Sligo and Tralee.
In the context of the priority on urban regeneration set out in the Programme for a Partnership Government, Minister Coveney and I will be working to provide increased funding in 2017 and subsequent years for a range of measures that address deep-rooted disadvantage, while developing an approach to urban regeneration that empowers people to work together to improve their communities and to reduce poverty, disadvantage and inequality.
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