Michael Ring (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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Question 209: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the reason grants under the scheme of support for older people have not been paid out in 2005; the further reason a lot of the applications were sent back to applicants in 2005; if there is a particular reason for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37096/05]

Noel Ahern (Dublin North West, Fianna Fail)
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To date, 175 applicant organisations have been approved for funding under the 2005 scheme of community support for older people. Payments have been made to 100 of those groups and I expect the payments to issue to the remaining groups over the coming days. I expect to approve funding to a further 80 organisations shortly and those payments will also issue over the coming days. A number of applications received under the scheme could not be processed on receipt, as the Department did not receive all the information necessary for processing the application. In most of these cases a letter issued from the Department requesting the necessary information from the applicant groups. In a small number of cases this required that the application form be returned to the applicant organisation for completion.

As requested information from groups concerned is received in the Department, their applications are processed as soon as possible.