Tom Neville (Limerick County, Fine Gael)
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38. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the funding provided to a movement (details supplied) in 2017; and the funding that will be provided in 2018. [18904/18]

Michael Ring (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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The organisation referred to by the Deputy is a member-based network with associated member bodies throughout the country.  My Department provided funding to the central organisation and its individual member bodies under a number of different funding streams in 2017.

I provided funding of €14,900 on a once off basis, to the central organisation to purchase IT equipment to ensure better communication systems within the network.

Under the RAPID (Revitalising Areas by Planning, Investment and Development) programme, my Department funded eight individual network member bodies for a total of €38,400 to upgrade facilities and expand their activities.

Under my Department's Communities Facilities Scheme, I provided funding to 73 individual member bodies in 2017 to a value of €93,320.  

The Social Inclusion and Community Activation Programme (SICAP), which commenced in most parts of the country on 1 January 2018, also provides support to individual member bodies around the country.  15 SICAP Programme Implementers have recorded activity to support 38 such bodies under the new programme to date. 

SICAP Programme Implementers have given 112 support interventions in areas such as community planning, social inclusion and equality issues, capacity building. However, no grants have been recorded to date to the network under SICAP 2018-2022.