Written answers
Wednesday, 30 November 2005
Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs
Grant Payments
9:00 pm
Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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Question 219: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the number of applications for grant aid under the various schemes administered by his Department from bodies, groups or individuals from County Kildare in the past 12 months; the number that were successful or otherwise; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37235/05]
Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail)
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The number of applications for grant aid under the various schemes administered by my Department from bodies, groups or individuals from County Kildare in the past 12 months are given in the following appendix. My Department has received 31 applications from groups in County Kildare under the 2005 programme of grants for locally-based community and voluntary organisations. I expect to be deciding on qualifying applications shortly. Four applications were received from groups in County Kildare under the 2005 scheme of community support for older people. Two of these applications have been approved and the other two are currently being processed. Kildare County Development Board applied on 10 November 2005 for a grant of €330,970 for cohesion measures and €84,500 for volunteering measures. A decision on this application will be made shortly.
There are Leader programmes delivered in County Kildare through Kildare European Leader Teoranta. Full details of all Leader projects funded in County Kildare are available on its website at www.kelt.ie. Under the initial round of funding, administered on behalf of the Dormant Accounts Fund Disbursements Board by Area Development Management Limited, a total of 22 were received from organisations based in County Kildare. Twelve of these applications were successful and were approved for funding of over €2.7 million. A breakdown of these approved projects is provided in the following table.
| Dormant Accounts Board Approvals (Co. Kildare). | |
| Group/Organisation | Grant (€) |
| KARE, Co. Kildare | 194,000.00 |
| Hospitaller Order of St. John of God, Celbridge, Co. Kildare | 167,336.00 |
| Board of Management, Scoil Phádraig Naofa, Athy, Co. Kildare | 41,000.00 |
| Sisters of Charity of Jesus and Mary, Co. Kildare | 300,000.00 |
| Kildare Youth Services (Curragh Youth Project) | 81,226.00 |
| Camphill Communities of Ireland, Kilcullen, Co. Kildare | 360,000.00 |
| Athy Youth Project, Co. Kildare | 58,775.00 |
| Athy Travellers' Club, Co. Kildare | 50,420.00 |
| Athy Town Council | 70,838.00 |
| ASSET, Athy, Co. Kildare | 100,000.00 |
| Cheshire Ireland, Newbridge, Co. Kildare | 1,272,273.00 |
| Dyspraxia Association of Ireland | 50,500.00 |
| Overall Total | 2,746,368.00 |
There were two applications for community development programme grant and both were successful. The balance relates to corefunding.
| Funding from 1 October 2004 to 1 December 2005. | ||
| Name | Final Quarter 2004 Funding | 2005 Total Funding |
| The Bridge CDP Newbridge | Core-funding —€13,900 | Annual core-funding —€62,400 |
| CDP Grant —€4,000 | CDP Grant —€8,000 | |
| Athy CDP | Core-funding —€29,143 | Annual core-funding —€105,400 |
| CDP Grant —€2,000 | CDP Grant —€4,000 | |
| North West Kildare, Allenwood, Naas | Not funded | Annual core-funding —€60,000. (As the Group was admitted to the Programme in Sept 2005 they will receive core funding of €15,000 and Start-up €11,270 in 2005) |
| Total | â'¬49,043 | â'¬206,070 |
The local development social inclusion programme allocation to Kildare for 2005 is as follows. Action south Kildare received €638,294, OAK partnership received €389,960. The RAPID programme in Kildare is confined to Athy under strand II of the programme. Allocations for 2005 from my Department are as follows. Local authority estate enhancement for 2005-06 totalled €45,000. Sports capital top-ups totalled €63,600. RAPID playgrounds totalled €33,000. Traffic measures totalled €22,500. The health and children co-fund totalled €38,500.
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