Claire Kerrane (Roscommon-Galway, Sinn Fein)
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249. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the number of applications that have been received by her Department under CLÁR funding; the number of successful applications and the number rejected, by county, in 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25132/23]

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)

The table below sets out the number of successful and unsuccessful applications under the CLÁR Programme in 2021 and 2022. The 2023 CLÁR Programme is not yet finalised so the data is not available.