Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 18 January 2024
Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement
PEACEPLUS Programme: Special EU Programmes Body
Erin McGreehan (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source
Much the stuff that I wanted to ask about has been covered. Ms McIntyre spoke about the areas of deprivation and how different moneys was awarded to different areas. If there was an area that did not actually submit a grant application for anything in the PEACE funding, is there an avenue for an intervention, let us say, for an area, and we recognise a place, that did not have the capacity to submit anything? It is cumbersome and it can be very daunting for a community group or anybody. It can be so much money and even the smaller grants of, say, ten grand upwards can be very daunting. If it is identified that the capacity is not there in an area of deprivation, what can a community do if it is struggling and it sees this pot of money? The community wants it but it just does not know how to go about getting it.
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