Joe Sherlock (Cork East, Labour)
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Question 83: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the funds which have been allocated to initiatives in support of volunteering to date in 2006; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22749/06]

Noel Ahern (Dublin North West, Fianna Fail)
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Funding in excess of €1.7m. has been allocated to initiatives in support of volunteering by my Department for 2006. These allocations are, in the main, part of multi-annual commitments made to a range of volunteering related activities which I announced as part of a package of volunteering initiatives in March 2005.

The allocations for 2006 are as follows:

∙Volunteer Centres Ireland, which is a national network of volunteer centres — €50,000

∙Eight volunteer bureaux, members of Volunteer Centres Ireland — €543,648

∙Focus Ireland, to support their Community Service Volunteer Programme — €81,394

∙The Young Social Innovators Programme — €250,000

∙The Community Learning Programme of the Dublin Institute of Technology — €110,000

∙Boardmatch — an initiative to strengthen the boards of management of voluntary and community organisations — €100,000

∙to Carlow County Development Board to promote volunteering — €76,600 from the Cohesion Fund

∙for volunteering projects by Local Area Partnership Schemes under the Local Development Social Inclusion Programme (LDSIP) — €500,000.