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Emigrant Support Services

Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 26 November 2013

Tuesday, 26 November 2013

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Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin

Question:

140. Deputy Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the funding received by each organisation supported under the emigrant support programme in the years 2011, 2012 and to date in 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50438/13]

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The Emigrant Support Programme (ESP) provides funding to not-for-profit organisations and projects to support Irish communities overseas and to facilitate the development of more strategic links between Ireland and the global Irish. The focus of the Emigrant Support Programme is on initiatives that: address the needs of the most disadvantaged and vulnerable Irish emigrants; enhance access for Irish emigrants and Irish community organisations to local statutory and voluntary services; foster a more vibrant sense of community and Irish identity amongst the Irish abroad; and encourage closer links between Irish communities abroad and Ireland, to the benefit of both. In addition, since 2009, the Programme also supports projects aimed at creating practical results orientated links between Ireland and the global Irish, and projects that emerged as a consequence of the Global Irish Economic Forum and its follow up. A list of payments made, to date, in 2013 is below. Payments in respect of a number of approved grants is currently being processed and I would be happy to provide the Deputy with a complete list of 2013 grants following the end of the financial year. Funding details for 2012 and 2011 are also set out below.

2013 Emigrant Services Grants Summaries(to date)

Britain

 Funding

Acton Homeless Concern (London)

53,663

Aisling Project (London)

107,613.05

Bell Farm Christian Centre (Middlesex)

8,586.15

Benefits Advice Shop (London)

4,666.36

Birmingham St Patrick's Festival

9,158.56

Blackfriars Advice Centre (London)

11,448.20

Bolton Irish Community Association

5,855.14

Brent Centre for Young People

20,998.60

Brent Irish Advisory Service (London)

158,557.53

Brian Boru Club (Wigan)

24,498.37

Bristol Playbus

2,927.57

Celtic & Irish Cultural Society

21,179.16

Conradh na Gaeilge, Glaschú

42,580.49

Coventry Irish Society

138,007.47

Cricklewood Homeless Concern

182,026.33

Doncaster Irish Association

4,199.72

Edinburgh Cyrenians

9,368.23

Emerald Circle Club, Harrow

3,434.46

Emerald Senior Citizens Group

5,366.31

Feith an Cheoil School of Irish Traditional Music

4,666.36

Forest Bus

5,724.10

Friends, Families and Travellers

17,172.30

Halifax Irish Centre

1,166.59

Haringay Cultural and Community Centre

170,578.13

Haslingden & Davitt IDL Club

4,666.36

Huddersfield Irish Centre

4,006.87

Immigrant Counselling and Psychotherapy (ICAP)

184,315.97

Innisfree Housing Association

35,130.86

Irish Arts Foundation

81,854.61

Irish Chaplaincy in Britain

258,982.73

Irish Community Care Merseyside

279,398.04

Irish Community Services Greenwich, Bexley  (formerly Irish in Greenwich)

246,708.64

Irish Cultural Centre, Hammersmith

160,274.76

Irish Diaspora Foundation

51,516.89

Irish Elderly Advice Network

105,323.41

Irish Heritage

8,013.74

Irish Heritage Foundation Scotland (formerly Harps Community Project, Glasgow)

46,663.56

Irish in Birmingham (formerly Irish Welfare and Information Centre)

230,108.76

Irish Network Stevenage

2,289.64

Irish Pensioners Choir

2,289.64

Irish Pensioners Forum of East London

3,434.46

Irish Repertory Theatre and Film Co UK

6,999.53

Irish Traveller Movement in Britain (ITMB)

128,324.78

Irish Tuesday Club, Liverpool

8,166.12

Irish World Heritage Centre

32,054.95

Lancashire Federation of Irish Democratic League Clubs

1,144.82

Leeds Gypsy and Traveller Exchange

53,130.12

Leeds Irish Health and Homes

160,847.17

Leeds St Patrick’s Day Parade and Celebrations

10,303.38

Leicester and Leicestershire Irish Forum

41,213.51

Lewisham Irish Community Centre

60,662.62

Lewisham Irish Pensioners Group

7,582.83

Liverpool Irish Festival

8,586.15

London Gypsy and Traveller Unit

104,751.00

London Irish Centre

637,664.57

Luton Irish Forum

108,757.87

Manchester Irish Festival

3,513.09

Manchester Irish Language Group

878.27

Maya Centre

22,896.39

Milton Keynes Irish Centre

13,394.39

Mind Yourself (formerly London Irish Women’s Centre)

64,162.39

Monica's Place

67,662.16

New Horizon Youth Centre

44,330.38

NOAH Enterprise

82,999.43

North London Action for the Homeless

6,440.66

North Wales Irish Society

6,999.53

Northampton Irish  Support Group

53,043.63

Nottingham St Patrick's Day Parade

7,026.17

Over 60s Pensioners Club

583.29

Oxford Irish Society

3,434.46

Safe Start Foundation

109,902.69

Sandwell Irish Society

36,061.82

SanKTus

28,104.69

SIFA Fireside

17,172.30

Solace Women’s Aid

46,841.15

Southwark Irish Pensioners Project

144,778.18

Southwark Irish Youth

6,999.53

Southwark Travellers Action Group/Peckham Voluntary Sector Forum

65,060.10

St Michael's Irish Centre

64,682.31

Streetwork UK

34,344.59

The Connection at St Martins

20,606.75

The Emerald Centre, Leicester

67,544.36

The Felling Irish Association

583.29

The Golden Shamrock Club

10,303.38

The Greenwich Irish Pensioners Association

4,666.36

The Hibernian Society

27,998.13

The Passage  2000

42,358.33

Tyneside Irish Centre

36,747.55

Tyneside Irish Cultural Centre

16,332.24

 Warrington Irish Centre

7,232.85

West Hampstead Women's Centre

6,868.92

Young At Heart Luncheon Group

9,158.56

Britain

5,383,636.64

The Irish Club Warrington

7,933

The Passage (London)

46,526

The South London Irish Association (Wimbledon, London)

8,174

Tricycle Theatre (London)

4,958

Tuesday Club Leeds Irish Centre

8,676

Tyneside Irish Centre

40,181

Tyneside Irish Cultural Centre

25,512

Watford Irish Association

3,100

West Hampstead Women's Centre (London)

7,398

Britain

7,596,425

USA

Aisling Irish Centre, New York

111,551

American Irish Historical Society, New York

65,455

Catholic Charities Community Services - Project Irish Outreach, New York

79,239

Chicago Celts for Immigration Reform

10,271

Chicago Irish Immigrant Support

147,887

Coalition of Irish Immigration Centres

42,238

Crossroads Irish-American Festival

8,043

Cumann na Gaeilge i mBoston

5,698

Emerald Isle Immigration Centre, New York

173,964

Glucksman Ireland House, New York University

17,711

Greater Danbury Irish Cultural Centre, Connecticut

3,848

Hudson Valley Irish Festival

7,137

Irish American Heritage Museum, Albany, New York

7,701

Irish Apostolate USA, Washington

16,547

Irish Cultural Centre of New England, Canton

87,225

Irish Heritage Society of Milford

6,931

Irish Immigration and Pastoral Centre, San Francisco

106,076

Irish Immigration and Pastoral Centre, Philadelphia

100,185

Irish International Immigration Centre, Boston

206,169

Irish Lobby for Immigration Reform

27,722

Irish Outreach, San Diego

17,671

Irish Pastoral Centre, Boston

105,463

Irish Technology Leadership Group

100,054

Mission of our Lady of the Holy Rosary Heritage Project at Watson House, New York

21,177

Museum of Newport Irish History

1,221

New York Irish Centre

114,636

Seattle Irish Immigration Support Group

8,894

The Gathering: Collected Oral Histories of the Irish in Montana

51,384

The Society of Commodore John Barry, Philadelphia

9,198

Worcester Hibernian Cultural Foundation

7,930

USA

1,669,227

Ireland

Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Eireann

177,411

Crosscare Migrant Project

172,000

Football Association of Ireland

35,000

Glór na nGael

40,000

Ireland Reaching Out

78,000

Irish Council for Prisoners Overseas

95,779

Irish International Diaspora Centre

40,000

Safe Home Programme Ltd

248,273

Ireland Canada University Foundation

34,000

GAA

370,000

Ireland

1,290,463

Australia

Australia Irish Welfare Bureau, Melbourne

106,045

The Claddagh Association, Perth

10,181

Friends of St Brigid's Association, Koroit, Victoria

14,530

Ireland Western Australia Forum, Perth

2,004

Irish Australian Chamber of Commerce Inc. , Melbourne

26,214

Irish Australian Support Association of Queensland, Brisbane

65,737

Irish Australian Welfare Bureau & Resource Centre NSW, Sydney

134,415

Irish Brekkie Club, Sydney

4,810

Irish Language School/ Scoil na Gaeilge, Sydney

1,603

John Hume Institute of Global Irish Studies, UNSW

20,042

Australia

385,581

Singapore

Farmleigh Fellowship

200,000

Singapore

200,000

Canada

Funding

Emerald Isle Seniors Society, Toronto

19,374

Irish Canadian Club of Hamilton

4,494

Irish Canadian Immigration Centre

61,996

Irish Women's Network of British Columbia

1,854

Lar na nGael - Irish Centre of Brampton

20,653

St Patrick's Society, Montreal

3,487

The Irish Benevolent Society of British Columbia

5,767

The Irish Cultural Society, Calgary

34,873

Canada

152,498

New Zealand

Irish Community of New Zealand Trust

32,947

Auckland Irish Society

23,101

New Zealand

56,048

Argentina

Asociación Argentino Irlandesa de Bahia Blanca

954

Hurling Club, Buenos Aires

27,441

Sociedad Irlandesa de Arrecifes

1,591

Hogar San Patricio (St Patrick's Home)

477

Asociación Argentino Irlandesa Guillermo Brown (Asociación Irlandesa de Capital Federal)

849

Argentina

31,312

Zimbabwe

Irish Association of Mashonaland

20,572

Matabeleland Irish Association Bulawayo

6,799

Zimbabwe

27,371

France

Network Irlande

17,500

France

17,500

Korea

Irish Society of Korea

10,666

Korea

10,666

South Africa

Irish South African Association

10,635

South Africa

10,635

Spain

Spanish Irish Business Network

3,993

Spain

3,993

Norway

Norwegian Irish Society

2,169

Norway

2,169

Russia

Irish Business Club Moscow

1,476

Russia

1,476

2011 Emigrant Services Grants Summary

Britain

Acton Homeless Concern (London)

52,529

Age UK Hillingdon (Middlesex)

10,697

Aisling Project (London)

108,365

Bell Farm Christian Centre (Middlesex)

14,126

Benefits Advice Shop (Denbighshire)

5,685

Birmingham St. Patrick's Festival Ltd.

11,539

Blackfriars Advice Centre (London)

22,740

Brent Adolescent Centre (London)

31,552

Brent Irish Advisory Service (BIAS) (London)

210,347

Brian Boru Club (Wigan)

25,572

Causeway Irish Housing Association (London)

26,379

Celtic & Irish Cultural Society (Crawley)

20,466

Central Eltham Youth Project (London)

27,100

Comhaltas Ceoltoirí Eireann (Liverpool)

154,125

Conradh na Gaeilge, Glaschú (Glasgow)

36,665

Corby's Young At Heart Luncheon Group

10,060

Coventry Irish Society

128,370

Cricklewood Homeless Concern (London)

204,732

Derby Irish Association

11,080

Doncaster Irish Association

5,318

Edinburgh Cyrenians

7,073

Emerald Circle Club, Harrow

3,324

Emerald Senior Citizens Group (Wolverhampton)

6,822

Equinox (London)

30,449

Federation of Irish Societies

602,161

Feith an Cheoil School of Irish Traditional Music (London)

6,254

Friends, Families and Travellers (Brighton)

11,775

Full Irish Festival and Funday (Cheshire)

7,106

Garngad Irish Heritage Group

7,904

GEAR Projects (Gloucester)

22,740

Greenwich Irish Pensioners Association (London)

6,315

Halifax and District Irish Society

20,512

Halifax Irish Centre

8,230

Haringey Irish Cultural and Community Centre (London)

225,830

Harps Community Project, Glasgow

37,521

Haslingden & Davitt IDL Club

4,287

Huddersfield Irish Centre

5,435

Huddersfield St. Patrick's Day Parade Association

4,832

Immigrant Counselling and Psychotherapy (ICAP) (London)

189,202

Irish Arts Foundation (Leeds)

90,136

Irish Chaplaincy in Britain (London)

212,554

Irish Charitable Trust (London)

187,777

Irish Community Care Manchester

201,479

Irish Community Care Merseyside

281,604

Irish Community Services (formally Irish in Greenwich) (London)

246,098

Irish Cultural Centre, Hammersmith (London)

876,500

Irish Diaspora Foundation (Manchester)

58,520

Irish Elderly Advice Network (London)

95,282

Irish Heritage (Surrey)

10,233

Irish Pensioners Choir (London)

4,127

Irish Repertory Theatre and Film Company (London)

8,186

Irish Traveller Movement in Britain (ITMB) (London)

136,287

Irish Tuesday Club, Liverpool

7,844

Irish in Birmingham (formerly Irish Welfare and Information Centre)

271,999

Irish World Heritage Centre (Manchester)

37,280

Kilburn Irish Pensioners (London)

1,807

Lancashire Federation of Irish Democratic League Clubs

1,186

Leeds Gypsy & Traveller Exchange

52,559

Leeds Irish Health & Homes

165,281

Leeds St. Patrick's Day Parade & Celebrations

12,507

Leicester & Leicestershire Irish Forum

45,909

Lewisham Irish Community Centre (London)

60,318

Lewisham Irish Pensioners Group (London)

9,650

Liverpool Irish Festival

8,469

London Gypsy and Traveller Unit

106,645

London Irish Amateur Rugby Club

13,076

London Irish Centre

571,180

London Irish Music School

4,517

London Irish Women's Centre

76,447

Lucht Focail (Leeds)

1,706

Luton Irish Forum

118,165

Manchester Irish Education Group

1,194

Manchester Irish language Group

859

Mansfield & Dukeries Irish Association

5,540

Marian Senior Citizens Club (London)

2,933

Maya Centre (London)

22,584

Milton Keynes Irish Centre

14,656

Momentum Care Irish Elders Centre (Rehab) - (Glasgow)

147,951

Monica's Place (Birmingham)

57,304

New Horizon Youth Centre (London)

43,386

NOAH Enterprise (Luton)

118,749

North London Action for the Homeless

5,745

North Wales Irish Society

7,138

Northampton Irish Support Group

64,556

Nottingham St. Patrick's Day Parade

9,231

Over 60's Pensioners Club (Thursday Club) (Camden, London)

395

Oxford Irish Society

1,884

Peterborough Streets (formerly St. Theresa's House)

29,138

Portsmouth Irish Society

12,908

Queen's Park Senior Citizen Group ( London)

4,576

Safe Start Foundation (Middlesex)

135,003

Sandwell Irish Community Association

15,691

Sandwell Irish Society

39,136

SanKTus ( formerly Our Lady Help of Christian's Welfare) (London)

47,671

Sheffield Irish Association

5,081

SIFA Fireside (Birmingham)

45,480

Slough Irish Society

28,425

Solace Women's Aid (Camden Women's Aid) (London)

48,323

Southwark Irish Pensioners

177,401

Southwark Irish Youth (London)

6,210

Southwark Travellers Action Group (London)

80,913

St. Michael's Irish Centre (Liverpool)

65,355

St. Patrick's Day Festival - Coatbridge

7,500

St. Patrick's Senior Tuesday Club (Leamington Spa)

6,538

St. Patrick's Stained Glass Window Project

5,685

Tara Irish Pensioners Club (London)

569

The Emerald Centre (Leicester)

51,811

The Golden Shamrock Club (Nottingham)

10,865

The Hibernian Society (Reading)

38,779

The Irish Club Warrington

7,146

The Passage (London)

42,069

Tuesday Club Leeds Irish Centre

6,822

Tyneside Irish Centre

69,715

Tyneside Irish Cultural Society

24,446

West Hampstead Women's Centre

7,322

Britain

7,825,234

USA

Aisling Irish Centre, New York

89,448

American Irish Historical Society, New York

81,979

Catholic Charities Community Services - Project Irish Outreach, New York

71,389

Chicago Celts for Immigration Reform

7,453

Chicago Irish Immigrant Support

129,352

Coalition of Irish Immigration Centres

29,136

Emerald Isle Immigration Centre, New York

148,905

Glucksman Ireland House/ New York University

35,305

Hudson Valley Irish Festival, New York

3,459

Irish American Heritage Museum, New York

6,937

Irish Apostolate USA, Washington

13,528

Irish Cultural Centre of New England, Canton

53,417

Irish Immigration & Pastoral Centre, San Francisco

107,766

Irish Immigration and Pastoral Centre, Philadelphia

83,316

Irish International Immigration Centre, Boston

145,682

Irish Lobby for Immigration Reform

29,811

Irish Outreach San Diego

26,084

Irish Pastoral Centre, Boston

130,610

Irish Technology Leadership Group , California

157,132

Mission of our Lady of the Rosary Heritage Project at Watson House, New York

14,515

New York Irish Centre

89,947

Seattle Irish Immigration Support Group (SIISG)

8,571

The Society of Commodore John Barry, Philadelphia

13,181

The University of Montana The Gathering: Collected Oral Histories of the Irish in Montana

53,659

Worcester Hibernian Cultural Foundation

10,921

USA

1,541,501

Ireland

Crosscare Migrant Project

172,000

Football Association of Ireland

42,000

Glór na nGael

44,000

Ireland Canada University Foundation

40,000

Irish Commission for Prisoners Overseas

96,448

Irish Episcopal Council for Emigrants (Irish Chaplaincy in Britain)

52,224

Safe Home Programme

265,000

South East Galway Diaspora Project (Ireland Reaching Out)

67,775

GAA - Britain

286,336

GAA- USA

75,000

Ireland

1,140,783

Table

-

Australian Irish Welfare Bureau, Melbourne, Victoria

-

Australia

-

96,385

-

Australia

Canberra Irish Club

3,834

Friends of St Brigid 's Association, Victoria

11,502

Irish Australian Association Inc , Adelaide

11,962

Irish Australian Support Association of Queensland, Brisbane

61,676

Melbourne Irish Festival Committee (St Patricks Festival)

1,534

Queensland GAA, Brisbane

38,673

St Patrick's Day Parade Association, Brisbane

7,867

Great Irish Famine Commemoration, Sydney

8,435

Irish Australian Welfare Bureau and Resource Centre, Sydney

115,039

Irish Brekkie Club, Sydney

1,478

Irish Language School/Scoil Gheimhridh, Sydney

1,442

The Lansdowne Club, Sydney

3,798

Australia

363,625

Canada

Charitable Irish Society of Halifax

6,577

Emerald Isle Seniors, Toronto

17,947

Holy Cross Cemetery Trust, Halifax

3,230

Irish Sports and Social Society, Edmonton

21,215

Irish Women's Network of British Columbia

2,188

Lar na nGael - Irish Centre of Brampton

21,986

National Irish Canadian Cultural Centre/St. Brigid's, Ottawa

7,311

Oral History Project/Centre for Oral History Concordia University, Montreal

3,733

Ottawa Irish Society Seniors

8,751

St. Patrick's Society of Montreal

3,282

The Irish Benevolent Society of British Columbia

5,469

Toronto Irish Immigration Centre

36,555

Canada

138,244

Singapore

Farmleigh Fellowship

110,000

Singapore

110,000

Argentina

Asociación Argentino Irlandesa de Capital Federal

852

Hurling Club Buenos Aires

40,365

Sociedad Irlandesa de Arrecifes

3,527

Argentina

44,744

Zimbabwe

Irish Association of Mashonaland

20,777

Matabeleland Irish Association

7,119

Zimbabwe

27,896

France

Conradh na Gaeilge Paris

900

Network Irlande Paris

20,000

Paris Gaels GAA

2,600

France

23,500

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New Zealand

Irish Community, Christchurch

20,000

New Zealand

20,000

Germany

Irish Business Network

15,200

Germany

15,200

South Africa

Irish South African Association: Gauteng Chapter

2,658

Irish South African Association: Western Cape Chapter

8,525

South Africa

11,184

United Arab Emirates

Irish Business Network Dubai

8,500

United Arab Emirates

8,500

P.R. of China

Le Chéile, Shanghai

7,187

P.R. of China

7,187

Japan

Irish Network Japan

6,164

Japan

6,164

Netherlands

Irish Club Netherlands

4,503

Netherlands

4,503

Norway

Bergen Irish Society

1,014

Norwegian Irish Society

3,043

Norway

4,057

Kuwait

Kuwait Irish Society

2,709

Kuwait

2,709

Switzerland

Basel Irish Club

1,834

Switzerland

1,834

Belgium

Belgium GAA

500

Belgium

500

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