Written answers
Wednesday, 23 May 2018
Department of Rural and Community Development
Community Services Programme
Tom Neville (Limerick County, Fine Gael)
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183. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if he will request Pobal to maintain the current staffing complement at a club (details supplied) in County Kerry until the appraisal of its business plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22815/18]
Michael Ring (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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The Community Services Programme (CSP) supports around 400 community organisations to provide local services through a social enterprise model with funding provided as a contribution to the cost of a manager and an agreed number of full-time equivalent positions.
The organisation in question is approved for funding under the CSP until end-December 2018. In late April it submitted an application for funding for the period 2019-2021. My Department requested Pobal to invite the organisation to formally submit a business plan, the next stage in the process, and a decision will be made in due course.
My Department has, this week, requested Pobal to extend the current CSP funding to the organisation pending completion of the re-contracting process.
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