Written answers
Tuesday, 22 April 2008
Department of Social and Family Affairs
Departmental Expenditure
9:00 pm
Fergus O'Dowd (Louth, Fine Gael)
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Question 279: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the funding or financial support given by his Department to an agency, body, community, religious or other group or organisation in the United States for each year from 2000 to date in 2008; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15377/08]
Martin Cullen (Waterford, Fianna Fail)
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The Department of Social and Family Affairs administers a scheme of grants under the general title of "Grants for the Development and Promotion of Information and Welfare Rights". The purpose of the scheme is to enable the Department to contribute towards the funding of a number of nationally-based information organisations, including those involved with advice to emigrants, and also to provide once-off funding to non-statutory information providers towards the cost of specific projects. The table in appendix 1 details the funding provided by the Department to groups in the USA in the period since 2000 to date in 2008.
| Grants to groups based in the USA | ||||
| Organisation Name | Organisation Address | Purpose of Grant | Grant Amount | Year provided |
| € | ||||
| Irish Immigration Pastoral Centre, San Francisco. | 5340 Geary Blvd., Suite 206, San Francisco, CA 94121, USA | Funding towards the cost of a conference of the Coalition of Irish Immigrant Centres held in San Francisco, November 2004. | 20,000 | 2004 |
| Coalition of Irish Immigration Centres, USA. | 7 South Cedar Lane, Upr Darby, Philadelphia, PA 19082-2816, USA. | Funding towards the cost of an annual conference of the Coalition of Irish Immigrant Centres held in New York, January 2005. | 25,000 | 2005 |
| Aisling Irish Community Centre, New York. | 990 McLean Avenue, Yonkers, NY 10704, USA. | Funding towards the cost of producing an information guide regarding social services available to the Irish immigrant community in New York. | 18,000 | 2005 |
| Irish Immigration & Pastoral Centre, Philadelphia. | 7 South Cedar Lane, Upper Darby, Philadelphia, PA 19082, USA. | Funding for the publication of an information guide for Irish immigrants in the Philadelphia area. | 21,160 | 2006 |
| Irish Pastoral Centre, Quincy, Massachusetts. | 953 Hancock Street, Quincy, MA 02170, USA. | Funding towards the cost of developing and implementing an information campaign focused on older Irish immigrants. | 15,022 | 2006 |
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