Community Development.

Thursday, 21 January 2010

Ceisteanna (256)

Tom Hayes

Ceist:

251 Deputy Tom Hayes asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the names of community organisations based in south Tipperary receiving funding from her Department for community programmes and the funding received by those organisations in 2009. [2675/10]

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Minister for Social and Family Affairs (Deputy Mary Hanafin)

The Family Support Agency funds the Family and Community Services Resource Centre Programme and the Scheme of Grants to voluntary organisations providing marriage, child and bereavement counselling. There are two Family Resource Centres in South Tipperary and they received funding of €203,220 in 2009. Seven organisations received funding of €85,150 under the 2009 Scheme of Grants. The details of these organisations are given in the following Appendix.

Table 1: Core Funding for FRCs in South Tipperary 2009

	€
Spafield FRC, Cashel	118,065
Three Drives FRC, Tipperary Town	85,155
Total	203,220

Table 2: South Tipperary Organisations funded under 2009 Scheme of Grants

	€
Knockanrawley Resource Centre, Tipperary Town	60,000
Rainbows Presentation Primary, Clonmel	850
St Michael’s Bereavement Support Group, Tipperary Town	900
Presentation Secondary School, Clonmel	8,000
Rainbows Outreach Clonmel	2,000
Spafield Family Resource Centre, Cashel	8,300
Three Drives FRC, Tipperary Town	5,100
Total	85,150