Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail)
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265. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the funding allocated to the social inclusion and community activation programme in each year since being established, in tabular form; the allocation in 2017; the actual amount of expenditure expended in each such year and to date in 2017; and the expenditure incurred under this scheme, by county, in each year and to date in 2017. [31959/17]

Eoghan Murphy (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael)
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My Department’s Social Inclusion and Community Activation Programme (SICAP) was rolled out across communities on 1 April 2015 and will run until 31 December 2017, with funding allocated as follows.

SICAP operated for a 9 month period for 2015 and the funding allocation included an allocation of €2 million under the European Structural Funds (ESF) Programme for Employability, Inclusion and Learning (PEIL) 2014-2020 and €2 million under the Youth Employment Initiative. The SICAP funding allocation for 2016 and 2017 includes an allocation of €3 million for each year under the ESF.

SICAP aims to tackle poverty, social exclusion and long-term unemployment through local engagement and partnership between disadvantaged individuals, community organisations, public sector agencies and other stakeholders.

The table below sets out the requested information regarding expenditure incurred, by county, in 2015 and 2016. Verified data on expenditure to date in 2017, by county, is not available. However, it is generally the case that the bulk of expenditure takes place in the latter half of the year. Please note that SICAP did not commence in Galway County until January 2017 due to a deliberative process. The figures in the following table for Galway in 2015 and 2016 refer to Galway City only: