Written answers

Wednesday, 26 October 2005

Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs

Departmental Programmes

9:00 pm

Photo of Dan BoyleDan Boyle (Cork South Central, Green Party)
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Question 106: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the amount of funding which he has made available in the first six months of 2005 to the RAPID area Cork-Togher-Mahon. [30688/05]

Photo of Éamon Ó CuívÉamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail)
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My Department, supported by Area Development Management, ADM, Limited, co-ordinates the implementation of the RAPID programme. It is a matter for each of the other Departments to report on progress on their implementation of RAPID and details of funding for the proposals that fall within their remit. Reports for all Departments can be accessed on ADM's website at www.adm.ie.

As the Deputy will be aware, in 2004 I introduced a new delivery mechanism to support small-scale local actions in RAPID areas, through co-funding with other Departments-agencies. Allocations by my Department to the Cork City RAPID area of Togher-Mahon under the RAPID leverage fund for co-funded measure for this year are as follows: RAPID health sector co-fund —€60,000; local authority housing estate enhancement scheme 2005-06 —€45,000; traffic measures —€22,500; playground grants scheme 2005 —€33,000; and top-up funding under sports capital grant 2005 —€111,000. It should be noted that additional funding totalling €170,500 was provided by other Departments and agencies to support these measures.

In the first six months of 2005, an allocation of €14,000 was made by dormant accounts to one of the projects from the Togher-Mahon RAPID plans. In addition, the Dormant Accounts Board has allocated another €528,434 to projects in Togher-Mahon.

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