Written answers
Tuesday, 12 December 2006
Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs
Departmental Funding
11:00 am
Ivor Callely (Dublin North Central, Fianna Fail)
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Question 410: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the level of funding in 2006 for the community development programme; if he will give a breakdown of the level of allocations to CAP projects in the Dublin area over the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42804/06]
Noel Ahern (Dublin North West, Fianna Fail)
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The Community Development Programme was established in 1990 in recognition of the role of community development in tackling the causes and effects of poverty and disadvantage. The Programme is designed to reduce social exclusion by targeting support at disadvantaged and socially excluded communities in order to improve their capacity to benefit from social and economic development. My Department assumed responsibility for the Programme in June 2002.
Projects within the Community Development Programme are funded on a contract basis, and are located in recognised disadvantaged urban and rural areas nationwide. Some €24 million has been allocated to the Programme in 2006. Sixty-nine community development projects are based in the Dublin area in 2006, of a total of 182 projects nationwide. Details of funding to these projects in the past five years can be found in the appendix.
| Appendix | |||||
| Community Development Project | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002 (from 25 June) |
| € | € | € | € | € | |
| An Cosán/Shanty | 126,800.00 | 175,350.00 | 78,740.00 | 76,020.00 | 56,550.00 |
| An Síol CDP | 124,700.00 | 112,400.00 | 97,820.00 | 94,565.00 | 77,650.00 |
| Aontas | N/A | N/A | N/A | 71,500.00 | 70,700.00 |
| Ballybrack CDP | 50,769.00 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Ballyfermot Travellers Action Project | 60,000.00 | 64,927.11 | 62,000.00 | 71,789.00 | N/A |
| Ballymun Men's | 113,329.98 | 80,437.00 | 62,000.00 | 77,533.00 | 5,500.00 |
| Bawnogue Women's | 58,100.00 | 45,952.00 | 39,380.00 | 39,270.00 | 18,838.00 |
| Blakestown | 128,500.00 | 118,750.00 | 103,000.00 | 100,000.00 | 77,550.00 |
| Blanchardstown Travellers | 96,800.00 | 88,829.00 | 83,100.00 | 83,900.00 | 28,750.00 |
| Bluebell CDP | 100,681.89 | 98,431.52 | 60,800.00 | 40,400.00 | 0.00 |
| Bosnian | 110,600.00 | 103,800.00 | 97,770.00 | 111,520.00 | 42,226.00 |
| Cabra CDP | 68,875.00 | 51,500.00 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| CAFTA CDP | 129,909.00 | 123,100.00 | 110,920.00 | 117,100.00 | 122,168.00 |
| CAP Ballymun CDP | 117,900.00 | 117,900.00 | 104,400.00 | 107,400.00 | 78,300.00 |
| Cherry Orchard Equine Centre | 128,195.00 | 121,200.00 | 107,500.00 | 35,300.00 | 0.00 |
| Clondalkin Travellers CDP | 111,600.00 | 102,699.00 | 99,630.00 | 107,148.00 | 45,700.00 |
| Clondalkin Womens' Network | 136,013.00 | 138,400.00 | 132,400.00 | 129,400.00 | 67,900.00 |
| Coiste na nIarchimí | 136,000.00 | 111,000.00 | 129,400.00 | 136,010.00 | 93,000.00 |
| Community After Schools Project | 154,400.00 | 145,000.00 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Community Technical Aid | 134,300.00 | 126,700.00 | 126,700.00 | 126,700.00 | 63,350.00 |
| Corduff | 115,500.00 | 113,000.00 | 90,300.00 | 86,800.00 | 39,000.00 |
| Crumlin | 49,121.85 | 7,519.85 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Darndale/Belcamp CDP | 118,797.00 | 64,690.00 | 110,500.00 | 126,550.00 | 71,850.00 |
| Dolcáin | 108,158.00 | 100,486.00 | 94,860.00 | 82,162.30 | 46,300.00 |
| Dolphin House | 78,900.00 | 82,225.00 | 88,100.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Doras Buí (PARC CDP) | 130,665.00 | 99,000.00 | 104,000.00 | 104,700.00 | 82,000.00 |
| Drimnagh | 76,000.00 | 28,277.50 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Edenmore Raheny CDP | 62,279.00 | 19,173.00 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Finglas South CDP | 114,200.00 | 110,900.00 | 88,400.00 | 77,842.00 | 44,350.00 |
| Holly House — Southside Partnership | 49,500.00 | 22,077.00 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| ICRG CDP | 132,545.00 | 120,400.00 | 118,000.00 | 120,300.00 | 93,819.00 |
| Inchicore CDP | 72,000.00 | 67,399.60 | 60,800.00 | 37,300.00 | 0.00 |
| Irish National Widows Ass. | N/A | N/A | N/A | 12,000.00 | 12,000.00 |
| Irish Senior Citizen's Parliament | 78,000.00 | 72,000.00 | 69,170.00 | 63,540.00 | 33,500.00 |
| Jobstown CDP | 117,800.00 | 102,300.00 | 99,250.00 | 96,050.00 | 61,350.00 |
| Kilbarrack CDP | 124,687.00 | 129,800.00 | 92,560.00 | 89,000.00 | 64,025.00 |
| Kilmore West CDP | 107,792.75 | 115,400.00 | 88,560.00 | 87,300.00 | 40,850.00 |
| Link-Cherry Orchard CDP | 139,505.44 | 109,438.00 | 100,250.00 | 133,362.00 | 48,217.00 |
| Lone Parents Network Tallaght | N/A | 5,000.00 | 20,800.00 | 20,000.00 | 10,000.00 |
| Lourdes Youth & Community | 124,026.00 | 115,631.16 | 102,830.00 | 102,990.00 | 50,350.00 |
| MACRO CDP | 106,200.00 | 92,100.00 | 87,930.00 | 119,380.57 | 76,300.00 |
| Markiewicz CDP | 71,518.77 | 68,000.00 | 80,670.00 | 68,500.00 | 39,000.00 |
| Matt Talbot CDP | 124,500.00 | 113,400.00 | 104,000.00 | 100,000.00 | 48,550.00 |
| Mountwood Fitzgerald CDP | 120,000.00 | 121,300.00 | 108,000.00 | 150,791.00 | 54,500.00 |
| Mulhuddart CDP (Greater Blanchardstown) | 125,600.00 | 120,300.00 | 114,500.00 | 146,800.00 | 104,150.00 |
| Nascadh CDP | 75,500.00 | 48,500.00 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| North Clondalkin CDP | 125,300.00 | 120,500.00 | 111,840.00 | 109,400.00 | 54,700.00 |
| North Wall Women's Centre | 107,100.00 | 101,000.00 | 92,900.00 | 71,848.56 | 44,950.00 |
| Northside Travellers CDP | 94,700.00 | 93,800.00 | 89,590.00 | 63,092.45 | 18,768.00 |
| Northwest Inner City Women's Network | 38,328.83 | 0.00 | 79,580.00 | 77,450.00 | 57,350.00 |
| Partners | 175,800.00 | 172,300.00 | 165,670.00 | 161,500.00 | 78,492.00 |
| PASS | 107,040.00 | 94,540.40 | 83,200.00 | 83,000.00 | 34,953.00 |
| Peace Project | 41,573.00 | 33,894.00 | 25,850.00 | 29,183.00 | 10,000.00 |
| Priorswood CDP | 109,600.00 | 100,775.00 | 92,560.00 | 126,400.00 | 92,800.00 |
| Project West CDP | 123,300.00 | 105,500.00 | 94,030.00 | 96,433.00 | 46,370.00 |
| Quarryvale CDP | 114,300.00 | 114,810.00 | 101,780.00 | 111,751.00 | 47,000.00 |
| Rialto | 124,592.54 | 113,240.98 | 101,800.00 | 97,900.00 | 46,700.00 |
| Ringsend Action Project CDP | 138,600.00 | 126,000.00 | 113,000.00 | 111,750.00 | 57,900.00 |
| Robert Emmet CDP | 118,085.00 | 87,262.60 | 62,000.00 | 2,500.00 | 0.00 |
| Ronanstown Womens CDP | 124,480.00 | 121,040.00 | 104,000.00 | 138,505.00 | 90,194.00 |
| Rowlagh | 95,500.00 | 87,100.00 | 82,780.00 | 80,098.98 | 41,000.00 |
| Shanganagh/Rathsalagh CDP | 47,165.00 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| SICCDA | 91,780.57 | 107,200.00 | 103,000.00 | 100,400.00 | 60,000.00 |
| Southside Travellers Action Grp | 98,040.00 | 84,177.00 | 73,100.00 | 28,464.03 | 25,350.00 |
| Southside Women's Network | 85,421.00 | 77,899.00 | 78,420.00 | 78,400.00 | 20,730.00 |
| SPLTU Tallaght CDP | 103,400.00 | 105,900.00 | 92,280.00 | 131,903.00 | 42,600.00 |
| St. Margaret's Traveller Centre | 94,500.00 | 89,380.00 | 75,430.00 | 91,361.00 | 20,350.00 |
| St. Michael's | 88,255.00 | 127,300.00 | 107,400.00 | 121,486.00 | 118,900.00 |
| Tallaght Lone Parents CDP | N/A | 86,377.00 | 92,750.00 | 89,986.71 | 45,150.00 |
| Tallaght Travellers CDP | 111,000.00 | 102,800.00 | 98,800.00 | 98,554.00 | 45,000.00 |
| Vista | 98,330.77 | 90,500.00 | 87,000.00 | 85,185.00 | 115,780.00 |
| West Tallaght CDP | 145,603.00 | 115,100.00 | 111,900.00 | 109,400.00 | 59,700.00 |
| Women Together, Tallaght | 97,700.00 | 76,882.00 | 84,730.00 | 83,215.00 | 40,556.00 |
Ivor Callely (Dublin North Central, Fianna Fail)
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Question 411: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the level of funding that has been allocated to date for the implementation of the National Drug Strategy 2001 to 2008; if he will give a breakdown of the spend of such funds for supply education, prevention, treatment and research initiatives. [42805/06]
Noel Ahern (Dublin North West, Fianna Fail)
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As the Deputy is aware, my Department has overall responsibility for co-ordinating the implementation of the National Drugs Strategy 2001-2008. The Strategy contains 108 individual actions, under the five pillars of supply reduction, prevention, treatment, rehabilitation and research. The actions outlined in the National Drugs Strategy are being progressed with the significant input of other Government Departments and Agencies, e.g. Health Services Executive, the Departments of Health and Children, Education and Science, Justice, Equality and Law Reform as well as An Garda Síochána, the Irish Prison Service, the Customs Service and FÁS. All of these bodies are playing important roles in the implementation of the overall Strategy and the structures in place facilitate inter-agency co-operation in that regard.
Towards the end of 2005 I requested that officials of my Department provide an overview of all expenditure directly attributed to drug work across the various agencies. The figure involved in 2005 was in the region of €200m as follows:
| Estimate of 2005 Allocations Directly Attributable to Drugs Programmes for Government Departments/Agencies | |
| Department/Agency | Allocation 2005 |
| €million | |
| Department of Community, Rural & Gaeltacht Affairs | 34.00 |
| Department of Health and Children | 2.74 |
| Health Service Executive | 92.75 |
| FÁS | 14.50 |
| Department of Education and Science | 3.78 |
| Department of the Environment, Heritage& Local Government | 0.55 |
| Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform | 8.67 |
| Irish Prison Service | 5.00 |
| An Garda Síochána | 23.70 |
| Revenue's Customs Service | 9.24 |
| Total: | 194.93 |
The figures, which should be taken as indicative, relate only to services that are directly attributable to the issue of illicit drugs. Figures for 2006 will be collated at the end of the year and this process will be continued on an annual basis. The estimate does not take account of various mainstream services that help to tackle the issue, as it is not possible to disentangle the element of such funding that is utilised by problem drug users from that aimed at the wider community.
Meanwhile the allocations made from Vote of the Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs towards the implementation of the National Drugs Strategy since the Department was established are as follows:
| Year | Allocation | Expenditure |
| € | € | |
| 2002 | 14,009,000 | 13,467,000 |
| 2003 | 32,036,000 | 36,463,000 |
| 2004 * | 26,756,000* | 27,510,000 |
| 2005 | 31,500,000** | 33,962,000 |
| 2006 | 43,006,000 | 38,798,152 (to 11/12/06) |
| Total 2002-2006 | 147,307,000 | |
| *Decrease due to transfer of €6.4m for mainstreamed projects to the Department of Education and Science and the Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform. | ||
| **Original Allocation before Supplementary Estimate. |
Ivor Callely (Dublin North Central, Fianna Fail)
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Question 412: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the criteria for harbours and piers in west Cork to be considered for funding by his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42806/06]
Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail)
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The Joint Coastal Development Measure was introduced under the CLÁR Programme in July 2005. The measure is jointly funded by my Department and the Department of Communications, Marine and Natural Resources (D/CMNR) and supports minor repair and safety works on small piers, slipways and coastal erosion works in CLÁR areas, including Gaeltacht areas and islands. Selection of projects for funding is a matter for the D/CMNR.
In 2005, Schull Pier was identified by the D/CMNR as requiring urgent funding and, subsequently, a CLÁR grant of €24,375 was allocated towards the overall cost of the project of €65,000. Alternatively, funding can be sought from the Islands Section, within my Department, which provides funding for ferry access piers situated on the islands and on the mainland serving the islands. Funding is also available under the annual Islands Small Works Programme for minor improvements to local fishing piers on the islands. The eligibility criteria used are that the island in question: must be permanently inhabited; must be cut off daily from the mainland by the tide; must not have a bridge connecting it to the mainland; and, must not be in private ownership.
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