Joan Collins (Dublin South Central, People Before Profit Alliance)
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Question 430: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that funding for the tenancy support worker, the youth project and the community warden scheme in an estate (details supplied) in County Sligo was provided by him through the sustaining communities fund, in view of the fact that the sustaining communities fund has been discontinued; if he will approve funding for the projects directly from regeneration funding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18733/11]

Willie Penrose (Longford-Westmeath, Labour)
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The Sustainable Communities Fund (SCF) provides revenue funding to local authorities for initiatives focused on estate renewal and regeneration, as well as for initiatives that contribute to the development and support of sustainable communities. Funding for a 3-year period was approved for the projects in question under the first call for proposals under the SCF in 2007, and was recouped to Sligo Borough Council over the period 2008 to 2010. In February 2011, local authorities were invited to submit project proposals for improvements to their social housing stock and for a further tranche of funding under the SCF. No application was received from the Borough Council for additional SCF funding for these projects. However, my Department understands that these projects are currently being considered for funding in the context of the wider regeneration programme for the Eastern Quadrant of Sligo, which includes the Cranmore Estate.