Niall Collins (Limerick, Fianna Fail)
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To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide an update on efforts being made to retain the vital Estate Management Projects in Fettercairn and Killinarden, Dublin 24 and if he will outline contacts which have been made in respect of this issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48511/12]

Jan O'Sullivan (Limerick City, Labour)
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The projects concerned operated as mainstreamed drugs projects under my Department’s housing programme. Following significant reductions in the funding available to support these projects in 2012 my Department, exceptionally, provided pro rata funding to support the projects until end June 2012.

Following a consultation process, South Dublin County Council identified interim funding to maintain the projects during the second half of 2012. The funding was identified on a partnership basis between the Council and the Tallaght Local Drugs Task Force. The Council has advised that this funding represents a once-off contribution and will allow the projects to continue while the report of my colleague, the Minister of State with responsibility for the National Drugs Strategy, on the review of the structures that underpin the strategy at local, regional and national level is finalised. It is understood that this report , which is expected shortly, will consider how current funding structures can be improved or streamlined, particularly with regard to local and regional drugs task forces.

The provision of funding by South Dublin County Council to end 2012 has also allowed the projects additional time to explore alternative funding mechanisms and to identify resources to deliver on the overall objectives of the projects beyond 2012, including through alternative service delivery models.