Maurice Quinlivan (Limerick City, Sinn Fein)
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919. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount by which the Economic and Social Intervention Fund, ESIF, was reduced in Limerick in 2024 compared to 2023 and 2025 compared to 2024; if provision has been made to continue the ESIF in Limerick in 2026 and beyond, given that it is a critical instrument to help address disadvantage in Limerick city; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11896/25]

James Browne (Wexford, Fianna Fail)
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The Limerick Regeneration Framework Implementation Plan (LRFIP) was adopted by the then Limerick City Council in February 2014. This plan set out a programme of physical, social and economic interventions over a ten-year period from 2014 to 2023.

One element of the LRFIP was the Economic and Social Intervention Fund, (ESIF), and over the ten year period of the LRFIP (2014 to 2023) approximately €36m has been made available to Limerick City and Council from my Department. This fund supported a range of social and economic initiatives to strengthen the local communities in the target areas.

Through ESIF, my Department provided initial seed funding to launch programmes under the following categories:

• Community
• Education and Learning
• Families and Youth at Risk
• Employability and Work
• Health, Well Being and Aging Well>