Written answers
Tuesday, 27 June 2023
Department of Rural and Community Development
Departmental Data
Alan Dillon (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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816. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development to set out information (details supplied) in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31107/23]
Joe O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Green Party)
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Last November, I was delighted to launch the 2022 Community Support Fund (CSF) under the Community Enhancement Programme, with funding of €10 million to assist local community and voluntary groups across the country with a multitude of costs including energy and utility bills, other operating costs, minor upgrade works and small capital purchases.
The funding is administered on behalf of my Department locally by Local Community Development Committees (LCDCs) across the country, with support from their Local Authority. The CSF is now closed to applicants. My Department is currently finalising the required details for the remaining Local Authorities under the CSF and I expect this to be completed shortly.
Details of successful projects will be published on my Department’s website www.gov.ie/drcd in the coming weeks.
Alan Dillon (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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817. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development to set out information (details supplied) in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31108/23]
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.
Under CLÁR 2022, I awarded a record €12.2 million for over 290 projects. I launched the 2023 Programme in March this year 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 assessment process is now underway and I expect to be in a position to make a decision on the Measure 2 projects in the coming weeks and on the Measure 1 and 3 projects in September.
With regard to Mayo, 15 applications were submitted under Measure 1, with ten applications under Measure 2 and one application under Measure 3.
It important that adequate space is given to complete the assessment process so it would be inappropriate to publish any detail on individual applications at this stage. I will of course, provide complete details of all applications, broken down on a county basis, when the assessment process has been completed.
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