Written answers
Thursday, 9 November 2006
Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs
Dormant Accounts Fund
5:00 pm
Joe Costello (Dublin Central, Labour)
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Question 12: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the recent funding that was approved from the dormant accounts fund; the money allocated to provide addiction counselling and employment supports for prisoners and ex-prisoners; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37006/06]
Noel Ahern (Dublin North West, Fianna Fail)
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Disbursements from the Dormant Accounts Fund are for the purpose of assisting three broad categories of persons — those who are economically or socially disadvantaged; those who are educationally disadvantaged and persons with a disability.
To date in 2006, the Government has approved the allocation of over €13.4 million from the Dormant Accounts Fund to support a range of funding measures under the economic and social disadvantage heading. In this regard, €11.35 million has been approved to support 188 priority projects in RAPID areas; €574,989 to support 6 projects providing services for vulnerable immigrant families; €999,889 to support 20 suicide prevention projects; and €502,722 to support 6 projects providing supports for prisoners and ex-prisoners.
In relation to the funding approved to support prisoners and ex-prisoners, a total of €250,004 has been allocated to provide addiction counselling services for prisoners in Dublin's prisons. In addition, a further €252,718 has been approved in order to maximise the employment opportunities for prisoners in the Mountjoy and Midlands campuses and Castlerea and Cork prisons.
Details of the specific allocations are shown in the following appendix.
| Dormant Accounts Fund 2006 | |||
| Social and Economic Disadvantage Category | |||
| Funding Measure – Supports for Prisoners/Ex Prisoners | |||
| Name of Group | Location | Purpose of Funding | Grant Amount |
| € | |||
| Addiction Counselling Funding Measure | |||
| Merchants Quay Ireland | Dublin 8 | To provide counselling and improve accessibility of drugs counselling to prisoners with drug problems across Dublin's 6 penal institutions. | 140,754.00 |
| GROW in Ireland | Co. Dublin | To put supports in place for prisoners in the men's and women's sections of Mountjoy prison to help them to tackle their addictions. | 27,000.00 |
| Ringsend & District Response to Drugs | Dublin 4 | To employ a part-time counsellor to provide one-to-one drug addiction counselling/group therapy for prisoners and ex-prisoners. | 42,250.00 |
| The Deora Project | Dublin 1 | To recruit an accredited counsellor, specifically to carry out addiction work in a prison setting. | 40,000.00 |
| Addiction Counselling Measure Sub-total | 250,004.00 | ||
| Employment Supports Funding Measure. | |||
| Business in the Community Ireland | Dublin 1 | To provide a fulltime prison-based service to provide training and employment opportunities for offenders in Wheatfield prison. | 185,614.00 |
| You're Equal Ltd | Co. Roscommon | To develop a self employment programme in Castlerea and Cork prisons with a view to equipping prisoners with the skills to set up their own businesses. | 67,104.00 |
| Employment Supports Measure Sub-total | 252,718.00 | ||
| Total Recommended Allocation | 502,722.00 |
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