Róisín Shortall (Dublin North West, Labour)
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Question 125: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if, under the Revised Estimates under equality, E.7 gender mainstreaming and positive action, he will provide the breakdown of the €4.982 million under the gender mainstreaming and positive action Estimate; the allocation for the implementation of the national women's strategy; the budget for the equality for women measure; the amount that will be spent on each of the four strands of the measure; when this funding will be allocated to each of access to employment, development of female entrepreneurship, career development for women in employment and fostering women as decision makers in view of the fact that the applications under the first strand of access to employment have been with him since July 2008 and no announcement has been made on projects nor information given to organisations to date; and when there will be an public announcement on the funding to all those who have applied. [17160/09]

Dermot Ahern (Louth, Fianna Fail)
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I have already indicated in response to Question No 144 of 12 February 2009 that the first Strand of the Equality for Women Measure (Access to Employment) was launched in Summer 2008 and it attracted a high level of interest, with over 150 applications being received, that all the project proposals had been appraised, but that the extremely difficult Exchequer position made it difficult to commit funding, and that the matter continued to be kept under review.

The position now is that my Department is in the process of completing its review and the decisions taken on the outcome will be made known in the near future.