Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour)
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Question 99: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if funding has been allocated by his Department for the installation of a closed circuit television monitoring system in New Ross town, County Wexford; when money can be drawn down; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14977/09]

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 46 designated RAPID areas nationally. As I have indicated to the House on a number of occasions, it is a matter for individual Departments to report on the provision of funding and progress on delivery with respect to projects under their responsibility in the RAPID areas. In support, Pobal collects data from each RAPID area in respect of funding allocations received by projects from Government Departments and local state agencies. The latest data in respect of the programme is available on Pobal's website under the RAPID section - http://www.pobal.ie/live/RAPID - and the Deputy may find it useful to access this information.

The House will be aware that I introduced the RAPID Leverage Schemes in 2004. Under these schemes, my Department tops up the funds of other Departments and agencies to provide small-scale local projects such as playgrounds, traffic measures, improved health facilities, CCTV, and top-up funds for projects promoted by sporting organisations under the Sports Capital Programme.

The lead agency in relation to the project referred to in the Deputy's question is the Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform and it is that Department which deals directly with applications and allocations under this scheme.