Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 13 December 2011
284 Deputy Brendan Smith asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if funding will be provided to community groups in the event of redundancies occurring for employees, in view of the major difficulties that would arise for such groups as they are not-for-profit organisations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40003/11]
View answerI understand that the Question refers to groups delivering projects under particular EU co-funded programmes. There is no provision under these programmes for redundancy payments as the programmes fund actual projects rather than the staff employed to deliver these projects. Any redundancies would be a matter for the groups involved in delivering the projects and subject to the contractual arrangements they have in place with their staff.
