Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 23 November 2022
Select Committee on Social Protection
Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Supplementary)
Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source
Yes. We will have funded 77% of what local authorities could deliver before the year ends. We asked them all what they could do. They sent us in our list and got 77% of what they could deliver. That is what we have done.
A question was asked about community centres. Requests for funding of less than €25,000 are for unincorporated community centres. In other words support of up to €25,000 is fine. For the bigger amounts we felt it was proper there would be corporate governance because it is taxpayers' money. This is why we said they needed to be-----
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