Barry Cowen (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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489. 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 local community development programme per annum in 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014. [6718/15]

Barry Cowen (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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490. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the estimated total administrative cost of the local community development programme for the years 2010 to 2014. [6719/15]

Ann Phelan (Carlow-Kilkenny, Labour)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 489 and 490 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My Department's Local and Community Development Programme (LCDP) superseded the Local Development Social Inclusion and the Community Development Programmes in 2010.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 current Programme is being implemented on a transitional basis pending the roll out of the new Social Inclusion and Community Activation Programme (SICAP) in April 2015.

During 2010, a national model involving full integration of Community Development Projects (CDPs) with Local Development Companies (LDCs) was set out by the former Department of Community, Equality and Gaeltacht Affairs with a number of alternative delivery structures considered. During this transition period in 2010 and 2011, the LCDP was delivered by a number of CDPs, and by all LDCs and Alternative Delivery Structures, details of which are set out in Tables 1, 2 and 3, respectively. Some CDPs decided to opt out of the LCDP integration process and in such cases, my Department provided funding to help meet certain wind-up costs, where appropriate.

The LCDP funding allocations to the Local Development Companies for the period 2010 to 2014 are provided in Table 2. The Alternative Delivery Structures continued to be paid directly by my Department from 2011 to 2014 (as set out in Table 3) and will be funded on an interim basis for Quarter 1 2015.

With regard to the estimated total of administrative costs of the LCDP per annum from 2010 to 2014 this averages between 31.7% for 2010, 31.3% for 2011, 29% for 2012, 28.16% for 2013 and 27.3% for 2014.

Administrative costs charged against the programme have historically been capped at 33% with the objective of reducing that figure to 25%. With the new programme, SICAP, it was stated specifically in the Invitation to Tender document that the total administration costs must not exceed 25% of the total budget cost.

Table 1