Joan Collins
Question:1187. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development the amount of the Covid-19 stability scheme funding that went to disability organisations. [44999/20]
View answerWednesday, 13 January 2021
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The Community and Voluntary Sector Covid-19 Stability Fund was intended to be a targeted once-off cash injection for organisations and groups currently delivering critical front-line services to the most at need in our society and in danger of imminent closure due to lost fund-raised or traded income as a direct result of restrictions to counter the spread of COVID-19. The criteria of the scheme stated that any grants awarded would be dependent on the need identified and organisations approved for funding were prioritised on that basis.
Eligible organisations were required to demonstrate the delivery of critical front line services to the most vulnerable in their communities to meet the criteria of the Stability Fund. To date funding of €5,746,221 has been allocated from the Stability Fund to 51 organisations that indicated that they were disability services providers.
This funding is now supporting the delivery of many critical front line services in every part of the country. The fund is now closed to new applications, however a small number of appeals await final decision. Outcomes will be communicated to these organisations individually.
A list of the 51 successful disability services organisations is provided in the attached and a full list of all successful applicants to the Stability Fund is available on my Department’s website at: https://www.gov.ie/en/publication/3957e-covid-19-stability-fund-successful-applicants/