Darndale-Belcamp resource centre is one of some 80 projects funded by my Department under the community development programme.
Following a complaint made in relation to the workings of the project in September 1996, the Department wrote to the management committee expressing concern at the implications the reported difficulties could have for the future work and viability of the project. The Department asked Meitheal, a community training and support organisation with specific responsibility under the community development programme for supporting CDP projects in Dublin North, to offer its assistance to the resource centre in relation to this matter.
Given the overall number of projects in the community development programme it is inevitable that some of the projects will experience difficulties. My Department's approach in all such cases is to work constructively with all concerned to try to resolve the problem and re-establish the project concerned on a sound footing and this is the approach being adopted in this case.