Electric.ie May/June 2021

E LECTR IC.IE • The Magazine & Website for the Irish Electrical Industry • 61 Industry News Fáilte Ireland announce new €17m Outdoor Dining Scheme ർ Grants available for tourism and hospitality businesses ർ Funding for Local Authorities to develop permanent long-term outdoor facilities F áilte Ireland have recently announced details of a new €17million Scheme for developing outdoor dining capacity nationwide. The Outdoor Dining Enhancement Scheme comprises two parts and will be delivered in partnership between Fáilte Ireland and Local Authorities across the country. Part One of the Scheme will provide funding for individual tourism and hospitality businesses to develop and increase their own outdoor seating capacity. Funding allocated under Part Two will enable Local Authorities to develop permanent outdoor public dining spaces in towns and urban centres, similar to those that exist in various European cities. The Minister for Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport, Gaeltacht and Media, Catherine Martin T.D. launched the Scheme, which opened for initial applications on 12 April 2021. Announcing the Scheme Minister Catherine Martin said: “This Scheme has two main objectives: firstly, to enable individual tourism and hospitality businesses increase their dining and seating capacity in the short-term and secondly to enable a long-term strategy for local authorities to develop appropriate permanent weatherproofed outdoor dining infrastructure. The aim is to support jobs and businesses and to transform appropriate outdoor spaces within our cities and towns as welcoming, vibrant places that will help support economic recovery. This funding announcement further strengthens this Government’s commitment to the development of rural towns, as outlined in the ‘Our Rural Future’ plan announced earlier this week.” For More details visit: https://www.failteireland.ie/ A Smarter Home Click Smart+ is powered by Zigbee – the world’s leading wireless protocol to control your home Every device can be controlled from anywhere using the Click Smart+ app or with Alexa and Hey Google. Alexa turn on the smart socket! HeyGoogle works with call: 01 2811122 fax: 01 2811224 email: sales@clicklitehouse.ie visit: www.clicklitehouse.ie