Mick Barry (Cork North Central, Solidarity)
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162. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the reason the grants for integration projects are cut down to €600 million in her Department compared to €1,321 million in 2015; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14053/17]

Frances Fitzgerald (Dublin Mid West, Fine Gael)
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As set out on the website of the Office for the Promotion of Migrant Integration (www.integration.ie), €1.386 million was spent on grants in 2015 but this sum includes over €457,000 for communities in which persons were resettled and over €389,000 under a European Social Fund (ESF) scheme. The call for applications for national funding which was advertised recently, in which €600,000 was given as the approximate amount to be spent each year, does not include resettlement and ESF expenditure, which is administered separately, and it is not the case therefore that there has been a cut in the amount available for grants to integration projects.