Willie Penrose (Longford-Westmeath, Labour)
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Question 107: To ask the Minister for Community, Equality and Gaeltacht Affairs if core funding will continue to be provided to a national organisation (details supplied) to support practitioners and volunteers working with young persons at risk in 2011; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46640/10]

Pat Carey (Dublin North West, Fianna Fail)
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My Department manages a range of schemes and programmes that support the wider community and voluntary sector, details of which are available on my Department's website at www.pobail.ie.

The Scheme to Support National Organisations in the Community and Voluntary Sector aims to provide multi-annual funding to national organisations towards core costs associated with the provision of services. Priority is given under this scheme to supporting national organisations which provide coalface services to disadvantaged target groups.

The current funding contracts under the scheme will finish at the end of this year. However, I am pleased to confirm that a new scheme has been developed and will be advertised in the coming weeks. In this regard, I have recently written to the organisations funded under the current scheme to advise them that interim funding will be provided to them for a limited period (to 31 March 2011 at the latest). This will allow for the submission and assessment of applications under the new scheme.

It will be open to the organisation referred to by the Deputy to apply for funding when the new scheme is announced.