Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 25 May 2017
Seanad Committee on the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union
Engagement with Ms Gina McIntyre
10:30 am
Mr. John Greer:
To return to one of the earlier questions on the amount of work done prior to the Brexit vote, we had begun work on the INTERREG programme and on a call for proposals under our specific objective 1.2. We had received a number of applications under that call. Unfortunately for us the UK's decision to leave the European Union happened at a very early stage of the programmes. Fortunately, it has not had a significant impact. Interest in the programmes is phenomenal. Typically, any call for proposals we put out receives requests for funding in excess of three or four times what we have available. Unfortunately for the applicants, there is a high rate of attrition for those requests but it clearly demonstrates a great appetite for the work we are doing and recognition of the programme's place.
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