Joan Collins (Dublin South Central, United Left)
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794. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the position regarding the future funding and status of the Dublin 12 Disability Mainstream Access Project (details supplied). [14452/15]

Ann Phelan (Carlow-Kilkenny, Labour)
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Rathmines Pembroke Community Partnership provided funding to Dublin 12 Disability Mainstream Access Project under my Department’s Local and Community Development Programme (LCDP), to work on a range of issues relevant to people with disabilities who are living and working in Dublin 12. The LCDP concluded on 31 March 2015 and the new Social Inclusion and Community Activation Programme (SICAP) was rolled out across communities on 1 April 2015.

In accordance with the Public Spending Code, legal advice, good practice internationally and in order to ensure the optimum delivery of services to clients, SICAP was subject to a public procurement process. Tenderers have now been informed of the outcome of their tender and Local and Community Development Committees (LCDCs) have finalised contracts with the winning tenderers.

Rathmines Pembroke Community Partnership was unsuccessful in its tender to deliver the SICAP in Canal/Rathmines/Pembroke Lot area, and I am advised that as a result the company is no longer in a position to continue managing the project referred to by the Deputy. Pobal, on behalf of my Department, is engaging with Dublin City Council and the relevant LCDC on mechanisms to find a workable solution to this issue and contact will be made with the project in question in the near future.