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

Violet-Anne Wynne: 75. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the expected timeline for the second phase of the town centre first programme for towns such as Kilrush, County Clare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40647/24]

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

Richard Bruton: 76. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the lessons that have been learned from the first phase of the town centre first policy; the constraints, if any, on its rapid expansion; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40312/24]

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

Martin Kenny: I ask for an update on the Department's plans to address dereliction and vacancy in our rural towns and villages. When we travel around the country, we see that many rural towns have a lot of buildings that are closed, including old shops, bars and once-thriving businesses. A lot of houses are also closed up, many of which are derelict. We have an unusual situation whereby there is a...

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

Joe O'Brien: I propose to take Questions Nos. 71, 75 and 76 together. Launched in 2022, the town centre first, TCF, policy is a major cross-government policy that aims to tackle vacancy, combat dereliction and breathe new life into our town centres. It supports the vision outlined in Our Rural Future for a thriving rural Ireland. It does this by providing a framework to facilitate and resource the...

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

Martin Kenny: I thank the Minister of State. Much work is happening in towns and villages where new footpaths and public areas and so forth are being provided, which is all welcome and positive. People cannot live on footpaths or in regenerated areas; they need homes in which to live. Many of the houses and old buildings in the towns are privately owned. While the Croí Cónaithe scheme...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Rural Schemes (10 Oct 2024)

Rural Schemes

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Rural Schemes (10 Oct 2024)

Martin Kenny: 67. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development to provide an update on the way her Department is implementing the published guidelines on "rural proofing". [40853/24]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Rural Schemes (10 Oct 2024)

Martin Kenny: I wish to raise with the Minister of State the issue of rural proofing. It is something I understand the Minister said last year would be published. The question refers to the "published guidelines" but I understand that they are not yet published and are still in draft form. I have had a read through them. We have many areas of the country where there is a decline in population and rural...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Rural Schemes (10 Oct 2024)

Joe O'Brien: Rural proofing is an approach to help ensure that the development of major policy initiatives are viewed through a rural lens to take full consideration of rural perspectives and issues. Rural proofing is not a policy or a model. Rather, it is a process to be undertaken that leads to better policies. Last year, my Department published a body of research on rural proofing which is...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Rural Schemes (10 Oct 2024)

Martin Kenny: I welcome that. We need to see progress on all of this. There are many areas where we can see problems with rural areas being left behind and not getting the kind of investment they require. The glaring example, for those of us who live in the west of Ireland, is certainly the western rail corridor. For years, we have been told it is going to be developed and yet, they continually look at...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Rural Schemes (10 Oct 2024)

Joe O'Brien: The Government's objective is to have balanced regional development across the country, and the national planning framework sets out the Government's objective for this with 50% of population growth targeted outside our major cities. The NPR is currently under review by the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage. Our Rural Future, the Government's rural development plan,...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Rural Schemes (10 Oct 2024)

Martin Kenny: On the issues of planning, and the Minister of State mentioned the big infrastructure projects, the Minister, Deputy Eamon Ryan, has said he will not build the western rail corridor from Sligo and Collooney right the way down to Galway. That is a huge problem, and this is a Green Minister telling us he wants to invest in rural Ireland. It is not happening. It is not happening in our road...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Rural Schemes (10 Oct 2024)

Joe O'Brien: I would underline the national broadband roll-out and the Local Link expansion. On the broader issue of rural proofing, while I think this document is going to help when it is published, one of the strongest things we have in Government to help us rural-proof things is that we have a Department of Rural and Community Development. What that means, obviously, is there is a senior Minister at...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Island Communities (10 Oct 2024)

Island Communities

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Island Communities (10 Oct 2024)

Catherine Connolly: 68. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development further to Parliamentary Question No. 2696 of the 23 July 2024, the status of the transfer to her Department of land on Inishbofin on which the airstrip is situated and on part of which it is proposed to build a primary care centre; if the land transfer been completed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40852/24]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Island Communities (10 Oct 2024)

Catherine Connolly: My question relates to Inishbofin off the coast of Galway, and specifically with regard to a transfer of land from the county council to the Minister of State's Department and then on to the Health Service Executive, to facilitate the building of a primary care or health centre. I followed this up with the senior Minister and in fairness, she took a hands-on approach to the matter. It has...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Island Communities (10 Oct 2024)

Joe O'Brien: I thank the Deputy for the question. I have good news this morning. I am pleased to advise that the transfer of land on which the Inishbofin airstrip is situated has been completed as of today. The Deputy will recall that these lands were acquired by Galway County Council by way of compulsory purchase order, which was originally initiated over 20 years ago. The Chief State Solicitor's...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Ukraine War (10 Oct 2024)

Bernard Durkan: My question is along the same lines. Is there consensus throughout the European Union on its dealings with and attitudes to Moldova and Ukraine at present given that each member state is also a sovereign country?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Ukraine War (10 Oct 2024)

Micheál Martin: I thank Deputy O'Sullivan and the other Deputies for raising the question. There is concern in the Ukrainian Government that we are losing sight of the war on Ukraine. It is not getting the same attention and focus within the House. What has happened to the children in Ukraine is abominable. It is very hard to comprehend how human beings can essentially deport 20,000 children having taken...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions (10 Oct 2024)