Brendan Griffin (Kerry South, Fine Gael)
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Question 6: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the specific grants and amounts paid by him to community and voluntary groups in Galway city and county to date in 2011; and if he will list the chairperson, secretary and treasurer of each group that were beneficiaries of same. [38340/11]

Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)
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My Department has funded four groups based in Galway in 2011. Irish Aid operates a Development Education Funding Scheme to promote development education programmes in formal and non-formal education in Ireland, including the community and voluntary sectors In 2011, funding was provided for a range of public cultural activities which supported Irish Aid's objectives for Africa Day of promoting public awareness and understanding of Africa and of development themes. Africa Day grants were provided to organisations for events in Dublin, Cork, Limerick and Galway with the maximum grant set at €10,000 and the minimum at €2,000 to allow a focus on a reasonably small number of good quality events. Two groups in Galway were awarded funding as part of this scheme. In 2011, I also approved an Emigrant Support Programme Grant for South East Galway Diaspora Project ("Ireland Reaching Out"). Ireland Reaching Out (IXO), established in 2010, aims to develop a framework whereby local communities identify and engage with members of the diaspora around the world who were originally from that local area. IXO organised a very successful "Week of Welcomes" between 26 June and 2 July to which those identified as having roots in the south east Galway (including Portumna, Gort and Loughrea) were invited.

The details of the four funding recipients are provided in the following table: