Departmental Funding

Tuesday, 6 July 2010

Questions (399, 400)

Sean Fleming

Question:

420 Deputy Seán Fleming asked the Minister for Community, Equality and Gaeltacht Affairs the allocation to each organisation under the local development social inclusion funding programme; the amount drawn down to date in respect of each group; the funding committed by each group and the balance yet to be committed or drawn down in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29807/10]

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Minister for Community, Equality and Gaeltacht Affairs (Deputy Pat Carey)

Details provided to my Department by Pobal regarding the 2010 allocations to groups under the Local and Community Development Programme (i.e., the successor programme since 1 January 2010 to both the Local Development Social Inclusion Programme and the Community Development Programme) are set out in the table below:

Group	Allocation	Cumulative paid to date (June 2010)	Balance for drawdown*
	€	€	€
Rathmines Information & Community Services	376,428	182,306	182,306
Rathmines Pembroke Community Partnership	307,505	76,876	227,116
South & East Cork Area Development Ltd	425,767	212,884	212,884
IRD Duhallow	476,499	238,250	238,250
Ballyhoura Development Ltd	559,735	279,862	279,862
North & East Kerry Leader Partnership	1,371,966	685,983	685,983
South West Mayo Development Company	274,250	130,917	137,125
Comhar na nOileán Teo	62,200	25,338	32,207
Breffni Integrated Ltd.	715,655	356,490	356,490
County Kilkenny LEADER Partnership	611,169	305,071	305,071
Ballyfermot Partnership	845,026	421,727	421,728
Ballymun Partnership	887,111	443,519	443,519
Blanchardstown Area Partnership	836,662	418,331	416,767
Canal Communities Partnership	787,393	393,630	384,687
Bray Partnership	883,668	441,834	441,734
Clondalkin Partnership	1,120,797	560,172	560,171
Comhar Chathair Chorcaí Teo	1,137,455	568,669	568,669
Donegal Local Development Co.	995,894	497,797	497,797
Dublin Inner City Partnership	615,867	253,885	350,023
Tolka Area Partnership	1,041,376	519,485	499,788
Galway City Partnership	798,250	399,126	399,124
Galway Rural Development Company	1,002,911	500,982	501,455
Longford Community Resources Ltd	707,801	350,210	353,900
Meitheal Forbartha na Gaeltachta Teoranta	1,873,974	936,987	936,987
Northside Partnership	1,112,831	547,427	545,582
PAUL (Limerick) Partnership	1,285,163	637,334	637,334
County Sligo Leader Partnership	692,091	344,574	344,574
South Kerry Development Partnership	753,213	376,599	376,599
Southside Partnership	1,008,148	501,246	501,246
Dodder Valley Partnership Ltd	1,232,833	599,841	631,016
Waterford Area Partnership	835,976	412,285	411,484
Waterford Leader Partnership	377,531	78,133	231,530
Westmeath Community Development Lim	933,519	233,380	700,139
West Limerick Resources Ltd	698,277	340,591	340,591
Forum	300,000	137,983	142,275
Avondhu/Blackwater Partnership Ltd	440,173	213,350	213,350
Inishowen Development Partnership	731,153	365,400	365,400
Louth Leader Partnership	1,570,614	785,299	785,299
Monaghan Integrated Development	761,344	372,367	372,366
West Cork Development Partnership	357,070	178,534	178,534
Wexford Local Development	1,795,949	887,275	887,275
Clare Local Development	789,483	363,134	363,134
Leitrim Integrated Development Company	729,222	355,274	355,274
South Tipperary Development Company	446,696	223,313	223,313
County Wicklow Community Partnership	549,670	259,129	259,130
Fingal LEADER Partnership Company	387,377	288,746	96,248
Carlow County Development Partnership	554,974	277,487	277,487
Cill Dara Ar Aghaidh Teoranta	985,451	490,931	488,744
Laois Community & Enterprise Development Company	581,342	269,359	269,469
Mayo North East Leader Partnership	496,326	248,163	248,163
Roscommon Integrated Development Company Limited	730,389	365,191	365,097
North Tipperary Leadership Partnership	520,282	251,540	251,540
Offaly Integrated Local Development Company	851,577	425,703	425,789
Meath Community Rural and Social Development Part.	334,030	167,014	167,014
North West Inner City Network Limited	102,050	21,335	80,715
Inner City Organisation Network (ICON) Ltd	94,587	31,529	63,058
Daughters of Charity Community Services Ltd — Tara	33,838	11,279	22,559
New Communities Partnership	35,249	11,750	23,499
South West Inner City Network Limited	85,011	28,337	56,674
Community Technical Aid Limited	108,255	36,085	72,170
Dublin Employment Pact	170,486	127,864	42,622
Westmeath Employment Pact	90,336	42,654	45,168
Total	42,277,875	20,507,757	21,295,098

*Taking account of any balances on hands.

Sean Fleming

Question:

421 Deputy Seán Fleming asked the Minister for Community, Equality and Gaeltacht Affairs the allocation to each organisation under the rural development programme; the amount drawn down to date in respect of each group; the funding committed by each group and the balance yet to be committed or drawn down in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29808/10]

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Minister for Community, Equality and Gaeltacht Affairs (Deputy Pat Carey)

My Department is responsible for the delivery of Axes 3 & 4 of the Rural Development Programme 2007-2013 (RDP), for which overall funding of the order of €425m is available. There are 36 Local Action Groups contracted on my Department's behalf to deliver the RDP throughout the country and these Groups are the principal decision-makers in relation to the allocation of project funding.

The table below details: the indicative allocation to each Group under the Programme to date; the amount drawn down by each Group to date; the funding committed by each Group to be drawn down; and the balance yet to be committed.

The Deputy will appreciate that it is imperative, particularly in the current economic climate, that the RDP maximises the funding available for the Programme on the ground, in order to ensure the improvement of the quality of life in rural areas and the diversification of the rural economy. With this in mind, I recently announced that the Groups are free to enter into commitments up to the value of €40m for 2011. In announcing this initial allocation for next year, I urged the Groups to focus their energies on supporting projects that will bring jobs and real and sustainable growth to communities across rural Ireland. Overall, I am confident that the availability of this initial €40m allocation for next year will allow the Groups to do this.

Local Action Group	Overall Programme Allocation 2007-2013	Total spend to date	Funding committed	Balance to commit
	€	€	€	€
Avondhu/ Blackwater Partnership Limited	9,057,810	961,627.87	797,217.02	7,298,965.11
Ballyhoura Development Limited	11,673,519	1,278,904.58	729,859.41	9,664,755.01
Carlow County Development Partnership Limited	8,878,177	554,913.07	1,249,676.20	7,073,587.73
Cavan Part & County Monaghan Area Part	12,035,118	462,741.84	542,871.06	11,029,505.10
Clare Local Development Company Limited	14,028,529	1,063,707.28	874,219.00	12,090,602.72
Comhar na nOileáin Teoranta	4,642,415	376,302.23	421,679.23	3,844,433.54
Donegal Local Development Company Limited	12,831,901	925,420.87	314,263.37	11,592,216.76
Fingal LEADER Partnership	7,766,780	400,547.73	172,087.52	7,194,144.75
FORUM Connemara	9,668,965	334,339.14	462,052.03	8,872,573.83
Galway Rural Development Company Limited	15,257,985	1,000,342.22	941,486.09	13,316,156.69
Inishowen Development Partnership	8,286,143	619,081.42	566,525.37	7,100,536.21
I.R.D. Duhallow	10,315,943	958,076.37	1,304,944.00	8,052,922.63
Kildare (Cill Dara ar Aghaidh Teoranta)	12,282,448	481,031.64	175,561.94	11,625,854.42
County Kilkenny LEADER Partnership Limited	11,523,729	830,127.88	1,205,971.95	9,487,629.17
Laois Community & Enterprise Development	10,993,608	491,886.56	648,838.50	9,852,882.94
Leitrim Integrated Development Company	10,845,497	807,668.04	599,797.81	9,438,031.15
Longford Community Resources Limited	8,714,110	742,395.54	541,485.89	7,430,228.57
Louth LEADER Partnership	8,839,815	620,659.06	1,005,090.76	7,214,065.18
Mayo North East LEADER Partnership	10,751,894	1,037,252.11	978,281.22	8,736,360.67
Meath Partnership	12,748,771	1,076,271.32	885,339.94	10,787,159.74
Meitheal Forbartha na Gaeltachta Teoranta	17,278,809	1,039,589.06	1,409,642.70	14,829,577.24
North & East Kerry LEADER Partnership Teoranta	10,558,882	635,054.10	955,019.06	8,968,808.84
North Tipperary LEADER Partnership Company	9,708,008	514,979.29	553,324.82	8,639,703.89
Offaly Integrated Local Development Company	11,520,489	870,177.10	600,490.20	10,049,821.70
Roscommon Integrated Development Company	12,838,021	888,848.65	1,344,205.28	10,604,967.07
County Sligo LEADER Partnership Company	10,888,673	857,779.19	1,258,724.77	8,772,169.04
South East Cork Area Development Limited	10,641,494	668,415.74	1,519,008.82	8,454,069.44
South Kerry Development Partnership Limited	12,370,667	862,785.35	764,298.80	10,743,582.85
South Tipperary Local Development Company Limited	11,106,187	737,632.12	1,193,908.04	9,174,646.84
South West Mayo Development Company Limited	12,150,007	934,345.45	1,584,592.49	9,631,069.06
Waterford LEADER Partnership Limited	10,558,519	819,324.65	376,337.91	9,362,856.44
West Cork Development Partnership	14,601,149	594,974.62	1,266,298.98	12,739,875.40
West Limerick Resources	9,997,751	411,702.58	616,074.05	8,969,974.37
Westmeath Community Development	10,987,060	454,488.11	499,830.83	10,032,741.06
Wexford Local Development	12,515,565	1,085,331.36	1,707,931.82	9,722,301.82
County Wicklow Partnership	11,135,560	685,962.86	530,614.00	9,918,983.14
Totals	399,999,998	27,084,687.00	30,597,550.88	342,317,760.12