Catherine Callaghan (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fine Gael)
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1463. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht to provide a comprehensive breakdown of all funding allocated and paid by his Department to recipients in counties Carlow and Kilkenny, respectively in each of the years 2020 to 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form (details supplied). [48769/25]

Catherine Callaghan (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fine Gael)
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1485. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht to provide details of any additional schemes under which funding was allocated or paid to recipients in County Carlow and County Kilkenny, including scheme name, recipient project, location, approval date, amount approved, and amount paid, with annual totals per county, from 2020 to date in 2025, in tabular form. [48807/25]

Catherine Callaghan (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fine Gael)
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1486. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht to provide a summary table showing the total funding approved and the total drawn down for County Carlow and for County Kilkenny, by year 2020 to date in 2025 and overall totals for the period, in tabular form. [48808/25]

Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 1463, 1485 and 1486 together.

My Department operates a wide range of schemes that fund projects and measures both at a national level and within specific counties. The table below details the total funding approved for County Carlow and County Kilkenny by year for 2020 to 2025, and the overall totals for both, across the many schemes operated by my Department.

I refer the Deputy to the detailed responses issued for related questions on specific schemes operated by my Department which provide detailed information on the amounts approved and drawn down for specific schemes in both County Carlow and County Kilkenny over the period 2020 to 2025.

I also advise the Deputy that full detail on the thousands of individual allocations awarded by my Department since its establishment is available in tabular form on my Department’s website at Funding allocated by the department. This includes details of beneficiaries, locations and information on each of the schemes.

Catherine Callaghan (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fine Gael)
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1464. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht to set out all Rural Regeneration and Development Fund approvals and payments for projects in counties Carlow and Kilkenny, respectively, from 2020 to 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form (details supplied). [48770/25]

Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail)
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The Rural Regeneration and Development Fund (RRDF) is a strategic capital investment fund that is key to the delivery of Ireland's rural development policy, Our Rural Future 2021-2025. The RRDF provides funding for the development and construction of capital projects in towns and villages and rural areas across Ireland. Funding is allocated to local authorities and other State-funded bodies, who take the lead role in individual projects.

Funding is allocated to local authorities and other State-funded bodies, who take the lead role in individual projects and manage project spend. As a general rule, the RRDF will provide up to 80% of the total project costs, with at least 20% to be provided in matching contributions by the applicants. For counties in the North West Region, this matching requirement has been reduced to 10%.

RRDF grant payments are made to the designated Lead Body over the lifetime of the project. The Department makes this funding available on the basis of actual expenditure incurred at project level, and claimed thereafter by the Lead Party. As such, and given the lag between this expenditure and claims to the Department, it should be noted that expenditure at project level in any given year may exceed that funded by the Department.

The attached table provides details of the funding amounts allocated in Counties Carlow and Kilkenny together with RRDF drawdown from 2020-2025 . Details of all RRDF approved projects can be found on the Department’s website.