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

I will keep my reply short and informal because we are under time pressure. I will try to answer the Deputy's questions as best I can. By visiting the Pobal website is the short answer to the Deputy's question about how groups can apply for the scheme. I also bring to the attention of other organisations that may not qualify under CVESS that Limerick City and County Council would have received an allocation of approximately €250,000, which will be run through the local community development committees, LCDCs. That money will be available for smaller community groups. We hope that by reopening the CVESS and the community support scheme through the LCDCs, we will have captured everyone. If groups are falling between the cracks, we would like to know about it. Pobal is the main stop for the CVESS and we have tweaked it to make it more doable for individual organisations that would have a large amount of facilities across a county. When it was introduced, the scheme was not efficient enough for them, but now that we have tweaked the administrative process and reopened the scheme for applications until 20 January, it should make it more doable for people to apply.

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