Barry Cowen (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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488. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide, in tabular form and on a county basis, the total funding available for the social inclusion and community activation programme in 2015, 2016 and 2017. [6717/15]

Barry Cowen (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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491. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the estimated total administrative costs per annum of the new social inclusion and community activation programme. [6720/15]

Ann Phelan (Carlow-Kilkenny, Labour)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 488 and 491 together.

My Department's Local and Community Development Programme (LCDP) superseded the Local Development Social Inclusion and the Community Development Programmes in 2010. LCDP is the largest social inclusion intervention of its kind in the State. The LCDP is currently being implemented on a transitional basis until the end of March 2015, pending the roll out of the new Social Inclusion and Community Activation Programme (SICAP) in April next.

Funding under the SICAP for 2015 is outlined below. Funding for 2016 and 2017 will be decided in light of the outcome of the Estimates processes for each year.

In relation to the estimated total per annum administrative costs of the new SICAP, programme implementers have been advised that the total administration costs for the programme must not exceed 25% of the total budget cost and indeed all implementers are expected to achieve savings in overhead and operating costs where possible.

2015 Allocation by County for the Social Inclusion and Community Activation Programme