Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 8 February 2018

Public Accounts Committee

2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Dormant Accounts Fund

9:00 am

Mr. Deaglán Ó Briain:

It is, and I will come to that. It took most of 2015 to get projects up and running. We were able to partner with existing projects and give them funding for extra workers. We set up ten new projects. We set up three of them on the basis that there was a neighbouring project run by an NGO that could do the job for us. The remaining seven started to come on stream from about September 2015, so it took a long time. This is inevitable and there is no way around it. For now, I can give the Deputy some figures. Even in 2016, the projects which had started to commence in 2015 and into 2016 could not draw down the full funding. As we move into 2017 and 2018, that changes. We have an allocation of €6.34 million from dormant accounts in the 2017-18 action plan. We have already spend €3.3 million of that in 2017, with an allocation in the 2018 Estimates of €3.5 million.

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