Barry Cowen (Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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435. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the funding for the CLÁR programme in each of the years 2007 to 2017 and to date in 2018, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19911/18]

Michael Ring (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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CLÁR is a targeted capital investment programme for rural areas which have experienced significant levels of depopulation. The programme was originally launched in October 2001 and closed for applications in 2010.  

I re-opened the programme in 2016 and launched further calls for proposals in 2017 and 2018. The amounts allocated in each of the years 2016 to 2018 under the CLÁR programme are provided on Table 1.  The closing date for CLÁR 2018 was 30th April. I hope to be in a position to announce the successful 2018 CLÁR projects in the coming weeks following the assessment of all proposals received.

Table 1 - Allocations under CLÁR 2016-2018

The draw-down of funding allocated under the CLÁR programme can straddle more than one calendar year.  Table 2 shows the details of payments made under CLÁR for each of the years from 2007 to date.  Payments made in the period 2010 to 2016 were in respect of legacy projects.

Table 2 - Payments made under the CLÁR programme from 2007 to 2018: