Question 319: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the funding avenues available to a group (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43772/08]

Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail)
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As the Deputy will be aware, my Department administers a scheme in the Gaeltacht under which community groups may apply for funding for local projects, subject to certain criteria. The maximum assistance that can be given under this scheme is 80% of the admissible costs and this percentage would include any assistance given by other organisations out of public funds.

My Department received an application from the group referred to by the Deputy during 2007. The works involved and the costing of the project were evaluated by the engineering staff of my Department. Based on that evaluation and taking account of assistance that had been sanctioned from other public funds, it was deemed that grant assistance of over 80% had already been approved. In the circumstances, therefore, it was not possible for my Department to grant further State assistance to the project.