Paul Gogarty (Dublin Mid West, Green Party)
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Question 97: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if he will provide a breakdown of projects that were allocated funding in the first six months of 2005 from dormant accounts in the RAPID region Togher-Mahon; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36771/05]

Noel Ahern (Dublin North West, Fianna Fail)
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The Deputy will be aware that decisions on the disbursement of funds from dormant accounts moneys in the initial round of funding are a matter for the Dormant Accounts Fund Disbursements Board. The board is an independent body established under the Dormant Accounts Acts. The board engaged Area Development Management Ltd., ADM, to administer the initial round of funding on its behalf.

The process of assessing and approving applications has now been completed and the board has approved 521 projects totalling approximately €63 million. I understand that overall funding of €456,324 in respect of eight projects based in the RAPID region of Togher-Mahon were approved by the board. Decisions to approve two of these projects were taken in the first six months of 2005 and in relation to the remaining six projects, decisions were made in the latter part of 2004.

The details of the eight approved projects, including the names of the individual groups, the specific grant amount approved and the month in which the decisions were made by the board, are appended for the Deputy's information.