Mary Upton (Dublin South Central, Labour)
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Question 114: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will review the funding needs of an organisation (details supplied) in Dublin 10; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10932/07]

Michael McDowell (Dublin South East, Progressive Democrats)
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The organisation, the subject of this Parliamentary Question is one of 65 Community based projects which my Department, through the Probation Service, provides funding to operate a range of services to offenders in local communities, e.g. pre-industrial training and education, offender management programmes, residential accommodation, drug and alcohol abuse treatment / intervention / awareness programmes etc.

In 2006, the project received a grant from my Department of €195,830 towards running costs. In addition to current funding, an additional supplementary grant of €26,505 was provided in 2006 to cover a deficit incurred over recent years. In the current year, the project received a substantial increase in its grant to €220,000. The Deputy may be aware that the project in question is also in receipt of funding from other sources such as FÁS, CDYSB and the VEC. As my Department already provides substantial funding to this project, I have no plans at this time, to further increase funding.