Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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Question 95: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the amount of grant aid offered directly or indirectly, on a county basis, by his Department to various community groups throughout the country; the range of the services granted aid; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36963/05]

Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail)
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The gross expenditure allocation for my Department in 2005 is approximately €354 million. As the Deputy will be aware, details of the allocations to individual programme areas are included in the Revised Estimates Volume 2005, which was published earlier in the year.

Expenditure up to 24 November 2005 across the three main programme areas, including administration, is approximately €278 million, which can be broadly broken down as follows: An Ghaeilge agus an Ghaeltacht, €66 million; community affairs, €126 million; rural affairs, €73 million; and administration, €13 million.

The Deputy will also be aware that expenditure within these programme areas takes place across a wide range of schemes and projects, descriptions of which are available on my Department's website at www.pobail.ie.

It is the practice of both my colleague, the Minister of State, Deputy Noel Ahern, and myself to make details of all announcements relating to grant approvals and other expenditure-related decisions under these programmes available on the Department's website. If the Deputy would like information in relation to a particular scheme, I would be glad to provide details to him.