Ruth Coppinger (Dublin West, Socialist Party)
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803. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government following the extension of the scheme to support national organisations funding for another year, his plans to put in place sustainable funding beyond June 2016 for the organisations in question. [23845/15]

Ann Phelan (Carlow-Kilkenny, Labour)
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The funding Scheme to Support National Organisations (SSNO) in the community and voluntary sector aims to provide multi-annual funding to national organisations towards core costs associated with the provision of services. Applications for a new round of funding, which commenced on 1 July 2014, were subject to an appraisal process. 55 applications were approved for funding for the two-year period from 1 July 2014 to 30 June 2016. A number of previously funded organisations were not approved for funding on this occasion. On 18 July 2014, it was announced that bridging funding of €1.4 million would be allocated for a twelve month period to a number of previously funded health, disability and other organisations that were not approved for funding under the new scheme, pending the carrying out of a review of the public funding of national organisations in the health and disability sector.

On 25 May 2015 I announced that funding will be provided from 1 July this year to 30 June 2016 to a number of health, disability and other organisations, following a review in relation to the impact of the cessation of their current funding on 30 June 2015. This further support will be based on current levels of funding to the organisations in question and is being provided through a Developmental Scheme to Support National Organisations (DSSNO). The funding, totalling €1.32 million, to be provided to each organisation is set out in the following table below.

It is envisaged that the new Scheme to Support National Organisations will be advertised in early 2016 and groups funded under the 2014-2016 Scheme to Support National Organisations and the recently announced Developmental Scheme to Support National Organisations will be required to apply for funding under the single SSNO Scheme and meet the criteria required for funding.