Tony McLoughlin (Sligo-North Leitrim, Fine Gael)
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Question 98: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will detail the level of funding that his Department has provided to a project (details supplied) in County Leitrim, through the various streams including Combat Poverty. [22041/12]

Phil Hogan (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fine Gael)
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The most recent funding to the organisation referred to in the question was grant aid of €546,551 in 2008 under the EU co-funded Programme for Peace and Reconciliation 2007-2013 (Peace III). The programme is jointly funded by the EU, Ireland and Northern Ireland, with an Irish contribution of 36.26% of the total cost. The Irish contribution, which was provided by my Department, amounted to €198,179.

The funding was part of an overall project involving a number of organisations working together on the Conflict Transformation from the Bottom Up project. It was supported under theme 1.1B of the Peace Programme: Building Positive Relations at a Local Level – Regional Projects, which funds the implementation of strategic models of collaboration between the public, private and community sectors that focus on reconciliation, cultural diversity and equality. It focuses on regional projects, particularly those addressing target groups that were specifically identified in the Peace III Operational Programme (such as ex-prisoners, women and youth groups). With regard to previous funding to the organisation concerned, I refer to the reply to Question No. 346 of 8 November 2011.