Tom Hayes (Tipperary South, Fine Gael)
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Question 317: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs when the South Tipperary Local Development Company will be open for applications for funding. [43592/08]

Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail)
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The Deputy will be aware that I announced the results of the process for selecting Local Action Groups to deliver the LEADER elements of the Rural Development Programme and the respective funding allocations for the successful Groups on the 4th November last. I hope to be in a position to sign contracts with the Groups in the near future. However, contracts will only be signed with those Groups who are fully cohesed and who have completed the transfer of Rural Social Scheme participants from the old LEADER companies.

South Tipperary Local Development Company has been awarded an allocation of €11,106,187 under Axes 3 & 4 of the Programme and it is expected that the Group will be open to applications for funding from project promoters in the near future.