Peter Burke (Longford-Westmeath, Fine Gael)
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1188. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the way in which individual clubs can apply for dormant accounts funding through the various departments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35461/18]

Seán Kyne (Galway West, Fine Gael)
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The 2018 Dormant Accounts Action Plan, which was published in July, approved funding of up to €39.7 million for 45 different measures across ten different Government Departments.

In line with the provisions of the Dormant Accounts Acts, the measures identified in the Action Plan target social, economic and educational disadvantage; and people with a disability. The approved measures will support a wide range of projects and programmes relating to issues such as social inclusion, assisting migrants, support for carers, speech and language therapy, support for dementia sufferers and sports measures. The majority of measures will commence in 2019, subject to voted expenditure being available within each relevant Department. 

With regard to the ways in which individual organisations can apply for funding, it is a matter for each relevant Department as to how they deliver their own measures. Within my own Department the social enterprise measure, which is administered by Pobal, has recently invited applications for capital funding from social enterprises addressing disadvantage and disability through their work. I am also aware that, for example, under the sports related measures delivered through the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport, Sport Ireland periodically invites applications for possible projects and programmes from the National Governing Bodies, Local Sports Partnerships and other agencies directly involved with disadvantage and disability.