Carol Nolan (Laois-Offaly, Independent)
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209. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development to provide a breakdown of the allocations made under the outdoor recreation infrastructure scheme for 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023, by county, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46917/23]

Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
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The Outdoor Recreation Infrastructure Scheme is funded by my Department under Our Rural Future. The scheme provides funding for the development and enhancement of outdoor infrastructure such as trails, walkways, cycleways, blueways and bridleways throughout rural Ireland. Earlier this year, I launched the 2023 ORIS with an allocation of €16 million, a €1 million increase on 2022.

Since the launch of ORIS in 2016, funding of in excess of €106 million has supported more than 1,500 projects across the country. Under the 2021 scheme, funding of over €18.9 million was approved for 273 projects. Funding of over €19.8 million was approved for 259 projects under the 2022 scheme. Approvals under the Project Development Measure of the 2023 scheme are due to be announced in the coming weeks. Successful projects under Measures 1, 2 and 3 will be announced in Quarter 1, 2024.

Details of all successful projects in the format requested are available on my department's website at www.gov.ie/en/collection/90a66b-approved-funding-for-outdoor-recreation-projects/.