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

There has been a lot going on in supporting communities with new arrivals over the past 18 months. Under my remit, social inclusion and community activation programme, SICAP, allocations have been increased again. The additional €10 million allocation of last year will be repeated next year. The additional €1 million allocation that volunteer centres got last year will run into 2024 as well and, therefore, there is a lot going on in this regard.

In my other Department, it is worth noting that local authorities have been resourced to develop new local authority integration teams and that will put feet on the ground and connect the functions of the local authorities with new communities. We need every resource available to make things work well in communities but we have got a good baseline to build on.

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