Deirdre Clune (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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Question 299: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the funding he has made available under the community support scheme in the Cork Area in 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 and to date in 2009; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45335/09]

Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail)
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I understand the Deputy's question relates to the Scheme of Community Support for Older People. This Scheme is administered and funded by my Department with the services delivered locally by community and voluntary groups. It currently provides grants support to these organisations to fund the once-off installation costs of socially monitored alarms, small items of physical security and in the case of qualifying older people living on our offshore islands, interior emergency lighting. The socially monitored alarm system remains the property of the organisation that receives the grant aid.

Since 2004 to the end of October 2009, 133 organisations in the County Cork, including Cork City, have received grant support of roughly €1.44m under the Scheme. Details of all payments made to beneficiary groups under the Scheme are published monthly on a county basis on my Department's website at www.pobail.ie.