Catherine Connolly (Galway West, Independent)
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242. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the amount of money granted to rural resettlement each year since 2012, with regard to the Government's commitment to rural resettlement; the current uptake of the scheme; if he will reinstate funding to Rural Resettlement Ireland, funding for which was cut in 2012; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36277/16]

Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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Rural Resettlement Ireland were advised on receipt of their grant in 2012 that, given resource constraints, it was unlikely my Department would be in a position to provide funding to them under Grant in Aid in 2013 or beyond. That position remains unchanged.

I refer to the reply to Question No. 149 of 16 November 2016 which sets out the position more generally, including in relation to the development of a broadly-based rural development strategy, led by my colleague, the Minister for Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs.