Brian Leddin (Limerick City, Green Party)
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86. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the current status of the approved Pathfinder programme for Naas, County Kildare; and if the funding is in place and can be drawn down as soon as the local authority is ready to do same. [9025/23]

Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party)
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The Naas Mobility Network Integration project was approved as part of the Pathfinder Programme in October 2022.

The Pathfinder Programme is not a funding programme and this was made clear from the outset. While most pathfinder projects indicated that funding commitments were in place, there were a small number which were dependent on securing funding sources outside my own Department's funding streams, including the Naas project.

In that context, I met with the CEO and Acting Director of Services of Kildare County Council on 3 February 2023 to discuss the delivery of the project and sources of potential funding, including the Climate Action Fund. My Department is engaging with them on this potential source of funding to progress the project quickly.