Carol Nolan (Laois-Offaly, Independent)
Link to this: Individually | In context | Oireachtas source

435. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if Ballycumber, County Offaly is an area eligible for a season of CLÁR funding; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5324/23]

Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
Link to this: Individually | In context | Oireachtas source

The CLÁR programme provides funding under a number of different measures for small-scale infrastructural projects in designated rural areas that have experienced significant levels of de-population over a defined period.

Since the CLÁR programme was relaunched in 2016, it has supported a wide range of measures. Funding of over €57 million has been approved for almost 2,100 projects.

Under the CLÁR 2022 programme, funding of over €12 million was approved for almost 300 projects. The measures funded were:

- Developing Community Facilities and Amenities (Measure 1) 

- Mobility, Cancer Care and Community First Responders Transport (Measure 2)

- ‘Our Islands’ (Measure 3) 

Maps of the relevant CLAR areas can be viewed on the Department's website. The village of Ballycumber, Co. Offaly is not located within a designated CLÁR area so therefore projects from this area are not eligible for funding under the programme.

My Department has an array of other capital funding streams which are open to communities across rural Ireland including the Rural Regeneration and Development Fund, Town & Village Renewal Scheme, Community Centres Investment Fund, Outdoor Recreation Infrastructure Scheme and the LEADER Programme. Further details of funding under the various schemes are available on my Department's website.