Sorca Clarke (Longford-Westmeath, Sinn Fein)
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2585. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the funding allocated to County Westmeath projects as part of the walks scheme from 2020 to 2024; the projects approved; and if moneys for same have been drawn down by Westmeath County Council, in tabular form. [18834/25]

Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail)
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The Walks Scheme, which is funded by my Department, contracts private landholders to undertake maintenance work on national waymarked ways and other priority trails that traverse their lands. The landholders receive modest payments for maintenance work undertaken in line with agreed work plans.

The scheme is managed at a local level by local development companies rather than by local authorities. There are no Walks Scheme trails located in county Westmeath.