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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Community Development Projects (10 Oct 2024)

Catherine Connolly: The Deputy will have to put in other supplementary questions.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rural Schemes (10 Oct 2024)

Rural Schemes

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rural Schemes (10 Oct 2024)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 74. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development for details of the latest local improvement scheme waiting lists in Cork; if she will include the number of roads and estimated costs for Cork; if her Department will engage with private contractors to help local authorities that are struggling with capacity; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40649/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rural Schemes (10 Oct 2024)

Darren O'Rourke: 79. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development to provide an update on the local improvement scheme, LIS; the measures this has supported in Meath; the amount of funding that was allocated to LIS in budget 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40520/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rural Schemes (10 Oct 2024)

Darren O'Rourke: Will the Minister of State provide an update on the local improvement scheme, the measures this has supported in County Meath and the amount of funding allocated to the LIS in budget 2025, and will he make a statement on the matter?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rural Schemes (10 Oct 2024)

Joe O'Brien: I propose to take Questions Nos. 74 and 79 together. The local improvement scheme supports the improvement of rural roads and laneways that are not usually maintained by local authorities. As part of Our Rural Future, the Government is committed to ensuring the LIS is funded into the future. In April of this year, funding of more than €40 million for the 2024 and 2025 schemes...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rural Schemes (10 Oct 2024)

Darren O'Rourke: I thank the Minister of State for his response. The funding is always welcome, but it does not go far enough. If you combine it with other improvement or involvement schemes like CIS, there is significant demand. There are long waiting lists. For those two schemes there is a ten-year waiting list in County Meath alone. In terms of the level of funding, is there a consideration of the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rural Schemes (10 Oct 2024)

Catherine Connolly: I apologise to Deputy O'Sullivan. I did not realise the questions were grouped.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rural Schemes (10 Oct 2024)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I did not realise either, so it is fine. The most welcome part of the Minister of State's few words was at the end where he said that if additional moneys become available, he might be able to supplement the budget, and he might need to do that. I have been talking to local engineers in Cork. The price of tar or chip has more or less doubled since 2019. Due to the significant...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Island Communities (10 Oct 2024)

Martin Kenny: Income is an issue for people living on many of the islands. They must have an opportunity to make an income. They are surrounded by the sea and, for many of them, fishing is one of the few ways they have to get an income. Many of the small fishing communities that live on the islands have great problems in getting quota, in particular for the inshore sector. There must be a focus on that...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Island Communities (10 Oct 2024)

Joe O'Brien: I am happy to take back the Deputy's request for an update on the expected publication date of the planning guidelines. There are specific housing incentive supports for the islands, including to address dereliction. My Department provides subsidies for additional transport costs involved for islanders. That was reviewed during the cost-of-living crisis and in some cases it was increased...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Island Communities (10 Oct 2024)

Martin Kenny: I commend Údarás na Gaeltachta, a body that has done tremendous work. It has been a shining example of what can be achieved when proper investment is made in an area or sector. Such bodies can deliver and not just pay for themselves but give rise to a multiplier effect in rural communities. They generally work in Gaeltacht regions. The other issue that must be addressed is...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Island Communities (10 Oct 2024)

Joe O'Brien: I fully agree with the Deputy. We must protect the islands and bring life back into them. They are a part of our national identity as well. I very much agree with his point on tourism, which is more developed on some islands than others. I was on the Aran Islands last summer, where tourism is very well developed. I was more recently on Cape Clear in Cork as well. We have made some very...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Island Communities (10 Oct 2024)

Question No. 73 taken with Written Answers.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Community Development Projects (10 Oct 2024)

Community Development Projects

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Community Development Projects (10 Oct 2024)

Thomas Gould: 78. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the supports in place to assist community organisations that do not have the capacity to apply for funding. [40575/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Community Development Projects (10 Oct 2024)

Thomas Gould: Will the Minister of State outline the supports in place to assist community organisations that do not have the capacity to apply for funding? In my experience, in many cases, community associations in more affluent areas with professional people have more capacity. On the opposite side, in working-class areas where great people are doing unbelievable work on the ground, many of them do not...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Community Development Projects (10 Oct 2024)

Joe O'Brien: Supports are available across my Department's broad range of funding programmes to build the capacity of groups to engage in application processes. The social inclusion and community activation programme is the Government's primary social inclusion intervention. The newest iteration features a dedicated core area of community animation, focusing on building capacity in community...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Community Development Projects (10 Oct 2024)

Violet-Anne Wynne: The Minister of State outlined quite a bit of information there. However, I was hoping to get an expected timeline for the second phase of the town centre first programme for towns such as Kilrush in County Clare. Specifically on Kilrush, Pobal did its deprivation report there last year which pointed to Kilrush being the most severely deprived settlement in County Clare. It is the only...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Community Development Projects (10 Oct 2024)

Joe O'Brien: One of the best ways I can describe to the Deputy the potential of the town centre first policy is from what I have seen in my own area. Much of it is capital investment for sure, but the starting phase of much of it was actually consultation with the local community who knew their town best. That happened in Lusk. There was huge consultation and huge input. People are obviously very...