Paul Gogarty (Dublin Mid West, Green Party)
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Question 536: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if additional funding will be made available to the Clondalkin Drug Task Force to pay staff employed as family project workers and project workers; and the benchmarking award applied to their salaries as recommended by the Labour Court in April 2005. [14265/06]

Pat Rabbitte (Dublin South West, Labour)
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Question 541: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if additional money is being provided to allow area based partnerships and local drug task forces to pay benchmarking awards; if funding will be provided to allow the benchmarking award to be awarded to a project (details supplied) in Dublin 22 in view of the recommendation made by the Labour Court in this matter in August 2005; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14795/06]

Noel Ahern (Dublin North West, Fianna Fail)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 536 and 541 together.

The pay and conditions of the employees of the organisations concerned are a matter in the first place for the organisations concerned. No additional resources have been provided to my Department for the award of benchmarking increases to employees of local drugs task forces or area based partnership companies.