Frank Fahey (Galway West, Fianna Fail)

The activities of the project were overseen by a committee comprising representatives of the employing organisation, the Garda Síochána, Galway City Council, local clergy and the local VEC. The individual to whom the Deputy refers was employed by the voluntary organisation as project co-ordinator.

The Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform was informed by the Garda authorities that the employing organisation had written to them on 25 April 2005 stating that, as a result of a number of operational and staffing difficulties which they detailed, they effectively had to withdraw from the project. The project was terminated on 31 May 2005. It was the understanding of the Garda authorities that the project co-ordinator had been offered a severance package by the employing organisation.

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