Brian O'Shea (Waterford, Labour)
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Question 176: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the funding he proposes to make available urgently to Volunteering Ireland (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7288/05]

Noel Ahern (Dublin North West, Fianna Fail)
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Funding of €106,139 under the White Paper on supporting voluntary activity was provided to Volunteering Ireland in 2004 and the operating grant for 2005 will be increased by5%, giving a total of €111,446. Volunteering Ireland will also receive funding under the White Paper training and supports scheme in 2005, totalling €35,000.

Later today, I hope to announce a number of measures designed, inter alia, to deepen and strengthen our volunteering infrastructure. An element of these measures will be the provision of funding to a number of other volunteer bureaux in addition to the continuation of the existing level of funding to Volunteering Ireland.