Maureen O'Sullivan (Dublin Central, Independent)
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Question 176: To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a list of interim funded drugs task force projects administered through the City of Dublin Vocational Education Committee and City of Dublin Youth Service Board; if he will provide details on the amount of funding provided to each project in each of the years from 2006 to date in 2012; if he will confirm that payments were made in 2012 to City of Dublin VEC and to the drugs task force project for which those funds were approved; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14432/12]

Maureen O'Sullivan (Dublin Central, Independent)
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Question 177: To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that requiring CDYSB to sign off a verification of 2011 expenditure in order to receive funding would mean the CDYSB would require more resources for administrative costs; if funding is then refused because verification is not signed off, eight local drugs task force projects in the Dublin city area will be affected and the organisation (details supplied) will be danger of closing in two weeks if funding is not resumed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14433/12]

Róisín Shortall (Dublin North West, Labour)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 176 and 177 together.

Funding allocated to interim Drugs Task Force projects is channelled through designated agencies including the City of Dublin Vocational Education Committee (CDVEC) and the City of Dublin Youth Services Board (CDYSB). All designated agencies were asked to confirm the actual amount of funding disbursed to Drugs Task Force projects during 2011. In line with Government accounting rules, savings arising at the end of 2011 must be taken into account in calculating the overall payments to projects in the current year. However, this process has not resulted in any delays in the transfer of funding to designated agencies. The accountability arrangements in relation to Drugs Task Force projects funded through the CDYSB have been finalised and payment of the first quarter of the 2012 allocation has issued to interim funded projects in the relevant Local Drugs Task Force areas. It is expected that the funding will be in the bank account of the project referred to by the Deputy on Wednesday, 14 March.

Details of the funding provided to projects channelled through CDYSB and CDVEC from 2007 to date are listed in the table below. There was no funding provided to either agency in 2006 for interim funded projects.