Ciarán Cannon (Galway East, Fine Gael)

I thank the Deputy for raising this matter. I am taking this Adjournment debate on behalf of my colleague, the Minister for Health and Children, Deputy James Reilly. The Kilbarrack Coast Community Programme, KCCP, is located at Thornville Road in Kilbarrack, at a premises leased by Dublin City Council to Kilbarrack and District Community Association, KADCA. KCCP is funded by the HSE to provide rehabilitative, prevention and education services and a parental support service to the Kilbarrack community. The Department of Health and Children has also allocated funding for 2011 in respect of KCCP, as a drug-related project in the Dublin north-east local drugs taskforce area. The funding and accounting for this project is channelled through the HSE. It is the responsibility of the directors of KCCP to acquire suitable alternative premises from which to operate, if required, in order to receive ongoing funding towards the valuable local services it provides. I understand that both the HSE and the local drugs taskforce have engaged with representatives of KCCP and KADCA on several occasions over a number of years in an effort to mediate the various issues that have arisen. Unfortunately, the matter is now the subject of legal proceedings and as such, it would be inappropriate for me to make any comment.

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