Catherine Connolly (Galway West, Independent)
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18. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the projects in receipt of funding through the town and village renewal scheme 2020; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24396/20]

Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
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This year’s Town and Village Renewal Scheme has been tailored to focus on interventions that can assist our rural towns and villages to respond to the challenges presented by COVID-19.  

The scheme includes an Accelerated Measure which will enable towns and villages to introduce initiatives immediately to support increased footfall and enable people to shop and socialise safely in accordance with public health guidelines.

The scheme also includes a second Measure which places a focus on the recovery of towns and villages from the impact of COVID-19 in the medium-term.

Funding of €10 million has been provided for the Accelerated Measure which will be allocated under three funding rounds.

I have already announced the successful projects under Rounds 1 and 2, with a total of €6.1 million being approved for 226 projects across the country.

Applications under Round 3 of the Accelerated Measure are currently being assessed by my officials and further funding announcements will be made when that process is complete.

Details of all projects that were approved under Rounds 1 and 2 of the Accelerated Measure can be found on my Department’s pages on the Gov.iewebsite.

The closing date for applications under the COVID-19 medium-term response measure under the Town and Village Renewal Scheme is 30th September and it is envisaged that successful projects under that strand of the scheme will be announced later in the year.