Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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Question 88: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the full extent of the funding made available by his Department and through various bodies under his aegis to various community based groups to deal with social or economic deprivation in 2005; the extent to which he expects to increase such funding in the current year under the various headings; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10779/06]

Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail)
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My Department provides funding, either directly or through bodies under its aegis, to various community based groups to deal with social or economic deprivation. The descriptions of these schemes are available on my Department's website at www.pobal.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.

Provisional expenditure outruns for 2005 and estimated outruns for 2006 for my Department are included in the recently published Revised Estimates Volume 2006. Expenditure across the main programme areas, including administration, for 2005 and Estimates for 2006 are given in the table.

If the Deputy would like information on a particular scheme, I would be glad to provide details to him.

Ciarán Cuffe (Dún Laoghaire, Green Party)
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Question 90: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if his Department will process the information regarding voluntary activity that will come from the census 2006 data; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10782/06]

Noel Ahern (Dublin North West, Fianna Fail)
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As I have indicated, my Department will review the experience of the package of volunteering measures that I initiated around this time last year as we develop a national policy on volunteering for the future. In this context, my Department will endeavor to take all relevant information into account.