Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Some eight non-Gaeltacht islands depend on funding from the Government for their community development companies that act as the development agencies and the interface with the State for the islanders on the islands. The money was transferred from the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government to the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht. Somewhere in the transfer, €97,000, which is a drop in the ocean in State funding, has been cut from the island funding. Can the Minister explain how much money he transferred and whether he had a prior arrangement with the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht that it would make up any shortfall in the funding transferred?

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