Joe Costello (Dublin Central, Labour)
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Question 436: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if he will apply the RAPID criteria to the Dublin 7 closed circuit television action group's application for funding as the area borders on the north west inner city RAPID area and the applicants are local authority tenants in the main; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7297/07]

Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail)
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The RAPID Programme aims to ensure that priority attention is given to tackling the spatial concentration of poverty and social exclusion within the 45 designated RAPID areas. In addition, RAPID priority status was extended to Ballyfermot in 2006. My Department, with the support of Pobal, has overall responsibility for the co-ordination of the RAPID programme. It is a matter for each Department to respond to issues of funding within their area of responsibility.

The Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform has primary responsibility for funding community-based CCTV systems. Pobal administers the scheme on behalf of that Department. Additional funding is provided to such projects in RAPID designated areas from the Leverage Fund scheme operated by my Department. I understand that this group has made an application under the community CCTV scheme administered by Pobal on behalf of the Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform. The area in question is not in the RAPID Programme and will therefore not qualify for additional funding from the Leverage Fund scheme operated by my Department.