Paul Donnelly (Dublin West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Again, there is no issue with the concept of the community centre investment fund. It is a good fund and a substantial amount of money.

What I noticed when I was going through all of the allocations - I will refer to Dublin West and Fingal because I know them better - is that there were a number of Fingal County Council owned, run and managed community centres that also got phase 1 and phase 2. None of them got phase 3, but certainly phase 1 and phase 2. They have substantial capital funding. Not all local authorities have that. Obviously, the Minister wanted to get the first tranche of money out there to people. Is there a way that we can sit down, have a look at this and provide it in a more targeted way so that, for those local authorities that have substantial capital funding, there is consideration if there is money left over that it could go to them, but primarily to those that are non-local authority owned or even local authorities that do not have substantial funding? Some local authorities struggle with funding. Perhaps it could be a bit more targeted and they could then get an even more substantial amount of money.

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