Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail)
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974. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide an update on the scheme to support national organisations; the moneys that have been paid out to national volunteer organisations under the scheme since July 2014; if he will list the organisations that have been issued moneys under the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40912/14]

Alan Kelly (Tipperary North, Labour)
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The funding scheme to support national organisations in the community and voluntary sector aims to provide multi-annual funding to national organisations towards core costs associated with the provision of services. A new round of funding commenced on 1 July 2014 , to run for a period of 24 months. Pobal is managing the scheme on behalf of my Department , given that organisation's significant experience and expertise operating such schemes . 55 organisations were approved for funding under the new scheme. One of these organisations subsequently entered liquidation and closed down.

Of the 54 remaining organisations, 21 have received funding to date under the Scheme. These are listed in Table 1 below. The remaining 33 organisations are at various stages of agreeing contracts with Pobal.

Table 1: SSNO 2014-2016 payments made to date.