Terence Flanagan (Dublin North East, Fine Gael)
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Question 85: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if he will deal with a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32803/09]

John Curran (Dublin Mid West, Fianna Fail)
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I understand that funding of €121,000 has been allocated in 2009 to the organisation in question to refurbish, equip and operate a family respite support facility by the Mid Western Regional Drugs Task Force. This funding will be subject to the usual accountability and control processes of the public bodies concerned. Given the recent nature of the decision to fund, no reports are available at this time.

I understand that Partnership Trá Lí provided €2,000 in 2008 for prisoner training. Pobal, which manages the LDSIP on behalf of my Department, exercises a financial control and audit function on partnership companies as part of its role. No issues have been brought to my Department's attention by Pobal regarding this element of the funding.

Michael Ring (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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Question 86: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if full funding will be continued for both the wages of the staff and the overheads involved in projects (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32885/09]

Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail)
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The majority of CSP contracts are due to expire at the end of 2009. Renewal of these contracts will fall for consideration in the context of the annual Estimates process for my Department for 2010. Contracts will be renewed subject to the availability of sufficient funding and the satisfactory performance of projects in contract. In general, the Community Services Programme does not provide full funding to meet the costs of wages and overheads incurred by the supported projects. The onus is on individual projects to generate sufficient funds from non-public sources to pay the going pay rates to their employees, to cover overheads and to provide for future development needs.

The contribution from the Programme is pitched in such as way that projects will not become over-reliant on public funds for their long-term sustainability. It is considered good practice for projects to build solid non-public sources of income to supplement the financial support provided by my Department. My Department will be contacting projects in the coming months in this regard.