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An extra 250 places have been allocated to the Rural Social Scheme as part of Budget 2018, Minister for Finance Paschal Donohoe has announced.
It comes following the announcement of 500 additional places in January 2017.
Rural Social Scheme work
Participants of the scheme work on the following type of projects:
• Looking after waymarked ways, agreed walks and bog roads;
• Energy conservation work for the elderly and the less well-off;
• Village and countryside enhancement projects;
• Social care and care of the elderly such as meals on wheels;
• Environmental maintenance work such as Tidy Towns projects;
• Helping non-profit cultural and heritage centres.
The scheme is delivered through 35 implementing bodies or local development companies, and Údarás na Gaeltachta.
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