Joe O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

To explain the difference between what we are scoping at the moment, the Deputy will know that community and voluntary organisations often apply multiple times to different State bodies, often within a very short period. It is part of our strategic plan going into the future that we want to make it easier for community and voluntary organisations to apply. We want to make it coherent and more streamlined. That will involve a whole-of-government approach. There is a bit of work involved in this. We are doing a scoping exercise via Pobal at the moment. Obviously, we have to see the results coming out of that. It is a different project to what Benefacts has done. If it all goes to plan, it would ultimately provide us with live information on who we are supporting across Government. Obviously, it will be of benefit to Departments as well but most importantly, it will make the process for community and voluntary organisations of applying for State support more coherent with less red tape, as well as faster and more efficient.

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