Carol Nolan (Offaly, Sinn Fein)
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1715. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the number of applications made per county to the CLÁR programme; the number of local authorities that have written seeking additional funding; the amount of funding granted by county, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37280/17]

Michael Ring (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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The 2017 CLÁR programme was launched on 31 March last, with a closing date of 5 May. Funding for the programme was available this year under four separate Measures:

Measure 1:Support for School and Community Safety Measures

Measure 2:Play Areas

Measure 3:Targeted Community Infrastructure

Measure 4:First Responder Supports

Over 500 applications were received across the four Measures to the value of €15 million.

Funding to support projects under CLÁR this year was limited and it was not possible to fund all applications. In general, applications were assessed on the basis of their eligibility under the scheme criteria and on the quality of the documentation supporting their proposals.

A total of 231 successful projects were approved for funding, with a total allocation of just under €7 million across the four Measures. While individual projects may have been disappointed not to have received funding, I am not aware that any Local Authority has written seeking additional funding under the CLÁR Programme.

Table 1 outlines the number of applications received by county under the CLÁR programme in 2017, together with the number of successful projects and the amount of funding approved.

Table 1 - CLÁR 2017: Number of Projects and funding approved by county