Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail)
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335. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her plans to run a programme under the CLÁR scheme to provide bus shelters in CLÁR areas with co-funding from Transport Infrastructure Ireland or the National Transport Authority; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7174/17]

Michael Ring (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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The CLÁR programme is a targeted investment programme which provides funding for small scale infrastructural projects in rural areas which have suffered the greatest levels of population decline.

I have secured a budget of €5 million for CLÁR in 2017 and the measures to be implemented under the programme will be announced shortly. While I currently have no specific plans to introduce a funding scheme for bus shelters in CLÁR areas, I will keep the matter under consideration in the context of the development of new measures that can support rural communities.