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

I thank the Minister for her answer to the question. It is obviously early days and we do not know the extent of the applications for that fund. It will be important to know the extent of them because then we will be looking to the need and the demand within the communities. I return to the community centre investment fund. There are strong stipulations on how we also need guidelines and boundaries around it. However, if a community centre on band 2 or 3 with an application for funding, discovers that there is an issue it did not know about, which unfortunately is now going to throw their timelines way out, is there leeway within the guidelines for that community centre to come back and ask for another six months or an extra year on top of what they had because otherwise they might lose the funding?

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