Michael Ring (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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Question 448: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the reason a section was deferred from a grant programme (details supplied); when this decision was made; and the persons who made this decision. [22750/09]

Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail)
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The Deputy will be aware that Local Action Groups contracted to deliver the Rural Development Programme 2007-2013 are companies limited by guarantee. Each individual group allocates project funding on the basis of detailed local development strategies and following extensive evaluation and approval processes. In line with the bottom-up nature of the LEADER approach, the Group is the principle decision-maker in the allocation of project funding. My Department does not have any role to play in this regard. In the case in question, I understand that the Group has decided that self-catering accommodation projects are not a priority for them in 2009. The situation will be reviewed by them in 2010.