Parliamentary questions

1474. Deputy Catherine Callaghan asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development and the Gaeltacht to provide details of all volunteering supports funding to the Carlow volunteer centre and the Kilkenny volunteer centre and any volunteer information services including core funding, once-off grants, and dormant accounts-funded measures with annual totals, by county, from 2020 to date in 2025…

1475. Deputy Catherine Callaghan asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development and the Gaeltacht to provide PPN core funding allocations and payments to the Carlow PPN and Kilkenny PPN including baseline allocation, additional once-off supports if any and total paid with annual totals by county, from 2020 to date in 2025, in tabular form. [48797/25]

1476. Deputy Catherine Callaghan asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development and the Gaeltacht to list all funding provided towards connected hubs, digital hub development or upgrade, and broadband connection points in County Carlow and County Kilkenny including hub/BCP name, location, scheme/measure, approval date, amount approved, amount paid with totals by county, from 2020 to date i…

1477. Deputy Catherine Callaghan asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development and the Gaeltacht to provide the LIS allocations to Carlow County Council and Kilkenny County Council and the payments made including the number of roads completed, location/MD, allocation, drawdown, and balance with annual totals by county, from 2020 to date in 2025, in tabular form. [48799/25]

1478. Deputy Catherine Callaghan asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development and the Gaeltacht to provide all tidy towns related funding and grants paid to groups in County Carlow and County Kilkenny listing group name, location, grant type, amount approved, and amount paid with annual totals by county, from 2020 to date in 2025, in tabular form. [48800/25]

1479. Deputy Catherine Callaghan asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development and the Gaeltacht to provide details of Community Recognition Fund allocations and payments to County Carlow and County Kilkenny including project, location, approval date, amount approved, amount paid, and status; with totals per county in 2023 to date in 2025 (and any related phases), in tabular form. [48801/…

1480. Deputy Catherine Callaghan asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development and the Gaeltacht to list all awards under the community and voluntary energy support scheme and any other once-off DRCD energy cost-of-living supports paid to organisations in County Carlow and County Kilkenny showing recipient, location, amount approved, and amount paid; with totals per county from 2022 to da…

1481. Deputy Catherine Callaghan asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development and the Gaeltacht to provide details of seniors alert scheme equipment grants delivered in County Carlow and County Kilkenny, including sponsoring group, number of beneficiaries, location, amount paid, with annual totals by county and year from 2020 to date in 2025, in tabular form. [48803/25]

1482. Deputy Catherine Callaghan asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development and the Gaeltacht the Dormant Accounts Fund allocations and payments administered by his Department to recipients in County Carlow and County Kilkenny in 2020–to date in 2025; and the measure/initiative, recipient/project, location, approval date, amount approved, and amount paid; with annual totals per county,…

1483. Deputy Catherine Callaghan asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development and the Gaeltacht to provide all town centre first supports to County Carlow and County Kilkenny, including town regeneration officer posts, town plans funded, implementation grants, location town, approval date, amount approved, and amount paid, with totals by county, from 2022 to date in 2025, in tabular form…

1484. Deputy Catherine Callaghan asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development and the Gaeltacht to list all awards under the Covid-19 Stability Fund and any other Covid-19 related Department supports to organisations in County Carlow and County Kilkenny, showing recipient, location, amount approved, and amount paid; with totals by county in 2020 and 2021, in tabular form. [48806/25]

1485. Deputy Catherine Callaghan asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development 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 20…

1486. Deputy Catherine Callaghan asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development 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]

1487. Deputy Naoise Ó Muirí asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development and the Gaeltacht to provide an update on an application for funding (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48889/25]

1488. Deputy Naoise Ó Muirí asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development and the Gaeltacht if he will provide an update on a project (details supplied) in County Mayo; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48932/25]

1489. Deputy Naoise Ó Muirí asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development and the Gaeltacht if he will provide an update on a project (details supplied) in County Mayo; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48933/25]

1490. Deputy Barry Ward asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development and the Gaeltacht his views on the merits of providing grant funding for HEPA filters and similar filtering systems for residents frequently impacted by gorse fires and the related impact of smoke; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48973/25]

2744. Deputy Michael Healy-Rae asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development and the Gaeltacht if a club (details supplied) will receive funding under measure 1 of the CLÁR funding 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47296/25]

2745. Deputy Rory Hearne asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development and the Gaeltacht if funding will be made available to support and strengthen the Irish language in non-Gaeltacht communities that have a number of Gaelscoileanna and a significant number of Irish speakers, such as Ballymun; the work being done at a national level in this respect; and if he will make a statement on the…

2746. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development and the Gaeltacht when the allocations under the 2025 town and village renewal scheme will be announced; if he will consider awarding funding to a community group (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44643/25]

2747. Deputy Louis O'Hara asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development and the Gaeltacht when the community centre investment fund will reopen for applications; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44687/25]

2748. Deputy Conor D. McGuinness asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development and the Gaeltacht the details of the representatives of fishing communities that were invited to the consultations regarding the next iteration of Our Rural Future. [44721/25]

2749. Deputy Conor D. McGuinness asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development and the Gaeltacht the reason the Summary Report from the Rural Youth Assembly 2024 acknowledges housing as a challenge for young people living in rural areas, but housing recommendations were not included in the delegates' final list of recommendations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44723/25]

2750. D'fhiafraigh Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh den Aire Forbartha Tuaithe agus Pobail, agus Gaeltachta cé mhéad airgid, lena n-áirítear airgead reatha nó eile nach airgead caipitiúil é, de bhuiséad na Roinne Gaeltachta a caitheadh ar Rannóg na nOileán nuair a bhí na hoileáin faoi chúram na Roinne sna blianta seo a leanas 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019. [44739/25]

2751. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development and the Gaeltacht to support an application in respect of a community organisation in County Kerry (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44971/25]