Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 22 June 2004
250 Ms B. Moynihan-Cronin asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the reason funding was withdrawn from a group (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18652/04]
View answerIn June 2001, the Castlecove women's group was awarded funding of approximately €173,000 under the equality for women measure of the national development plan. A year later, the project still had not commenced activity. In November 2002, due to ongoing difficulties with the management of the project, my Department directed that the group suspend activity pending a review to be carried out by the independent technical support service responsible for the management of the measure.
The technical support service submitted its report to my Department in December 2002. Having considered the report, I decided in March 2003 to scale back the group's original proposal to a budget of €51,883 for delivery within a six-month period.
Following discussions between my Department and the project promoters, a revised action plan was drawn up by the group and a supplementary agreement was signed by both parties, effective from 16 June 2003. The project concluded its activity on 15 December 2003 and a final report was submitted by the group in March 2004.
