Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail)
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Question 127: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government when a Leader payment due to an organisation (details supplied) will be released. [33571/11]

Phil Hogan (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fine Gael)
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There are 36 Local Action Groups contracted, on my Department's behalf, to deliver the RDP throughout the country and these groups are the principal decision-makers in relation to the allocation of project funding. Such decisions are made in the context of the local development strategy of the individual groups and in line with Departmental operating rules and EU regulations.

My Department has been in touch with Sligo LEADER Partnership which is the group dealing with the project referred to in the question. Sligo LEADER Partnership has confirmed that it will be in a position to process a payment claim for this project very shortly.