Finian McGrath (Dublin North Central, Independent)
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Question 1476: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the reason services to Travellers are being cut (details supplied). [32521/10]

Michael Finneran (Roscommon-South Leitrim, Fianna Fail)
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The Sustainable Communities Fund was established as a key deliverable under my Department's statement on housing policy Delivering Homes, Sustaining Communities with the objectives of supporting initiatives that would improve quality of life in regeneration areas, promoting social inclusion by meeting equality, diversity, and special needs, and facilitating better management of local authority housing estates.

Following a call for proposals in late 2007, this project was one of over fifty approved for funding support under the Fund over the period 2008 to 2010. My Department wrote to South Dublin County Council on 17 September 2010 to notify the Council that the three year funding support for this project would, as per the original approval, cease at the end of 2010 and inviting the submission of final funding requests. No response has been received as yet and the County Council has not otherwise indicated its intention to seek a continuation of the project. The availability of funding for new projects, or the extension of existing projects, under the Fund in 2011 will be determined by the outcome of the current Estimates process.