Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The Deputy need not worry; the Minister, Deputy Browne, has promised me a coffee down there any day. It sounds like a fabulous project. Those are the kinds of projects we want to see. They sound very much like community services projects which support 430 community-based organisations to provide local economic environmental services with 1,700 full-time posts and 340 manager posts, supported by the Department. Last year we published the Achieve Together social innovation coaching and mentoring programme which is co-funded under Ireland's ESF operational programme. That provides bespoke mentors and coaches to existing CSP-supported organisations for a 12-month period. That will address some of the issues that we discussed in the previous question in terms of sustainability and providing better services. That is definitely the kind of model I want to see grow. We hope to roll out the Achieve Together programme across the country and make it available to other organisations.

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