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

As I said, I absolutely acknowledge this. Some of the projects, for example the playground in Fortlawn, are really good. I know that one personally, it is a really good project, the Fortlawn Flower Power group has been instrumental fighting for this for a number of years. It is a really good example of the community recognition fund. I just have a worry and a concern about some of the funding that has been allocated, as to what the connection to some of the communities would be, whether some of the communities would actually even know that the community recognition fund paid for something and that it was part of the supports that were being provided by the Department in terms of the pressures that have been put on communities. We may have to look at that again and see what is the connection between the community of the ground, the people who see it, experience it and who are feeling all those pressures, and some of the allocations to some of the projects or funds. Some of them looked to me like Fingal County Council projects, to be honest.

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