Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Aontú)
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97. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the counties which benefited from the CLÁR small scale rural projects in the past year; and the amount of funding allocated to each county. [19223/23]

Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
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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 depopulation 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 since its relaunch.

I launched CLÁR 2023 on 29 March 2023 and the measures to be funded are:

• Developing Community Facilities and Amenities (Measure 1)
• Mobility, Cancer Care and Community First Responders Transport (Measure 2)
• ‘Our Islands’ (Measure 3)