Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 29 September 2004
1038 Mr. G. Mitchell asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the steps he will take to ensure that the Inchicore community drug team (details supplied) does not have its funding reduced as proposed by ADM; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21387/04]
View answerAs the Deputy may be aware, this community based group was approved a staffing grant of €195,000, over three years, in March 2003. This has enabled the group to employ two full time child care workers. The Deputy should note that support towards staffing costs under the equal opportunities child care programme 2000-2006 is only made available to those projects which can demonstrate they are providing child care in areas of significant disadvantage and which are supporting parents to access employment, education or training.
I understand that, in accordance with its usual practice, Area Development Management Limited has been in contact with the project in order to review the group's performance against the targets set at the grant approval stage, as is an integral part of the overall management of the programme. The review in respect of the project referred to will be completed later this year. It is important to ensure that projects which receive grant support actually provide the levels of service to which they commit and ADM Limited maintains regular contact with all grant beneficiaries for this purpose. The review of performance in respect of the project referred to will be completed later this year.
