Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)

Schemes have been allocated funding of between €500 and €1,000. Approximately 6% of schemes have been allocated less than that because the process depended on two things: the submission and application the schemes themselves made and the availability of funding for both materials and training of up to €1,000. Some schemes would have other forms of funding whereas other schemes might have almost no other sources of funding. We have moved away from the old system whereby everybody got exactly the same amount towards a customised approach-----

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