Jack Wall (Kildare South, Labour)
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Question 132: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if he had or proposes to have meetings with the Department of Social and Family Affairs to discuss the family resource centres; if so, the decision of such meetings; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32637/09]

John Curran (Dublin Mid West, Fianna Fail)
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The Department of Social and Family Affairs is the lead Department of State with responsibility for the Family Support Agency, which administers the Family Resource Centre Programme and discussions between departments take place from time to time as necessary.

In the context of providing more efficient and streamlined social inclusion services to people who need them the most, the integration of the Local Development Social Inclusion Programme and the Community Development Programme was recently announced.

Clearly for the future every opportunity for improved synergies and impacts by programmes delivered across Departments must be availed of, including across measures such as the new integrated programme referred to above and Family Resource Centres.