Robert Troy (Longford-Westmeath, Fianna Fail)
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453. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the funding options available to a group (details supplied) to help with day-to-day costs of office and administration; and his plans to fund the group following a recent meeting which he held with its representatives. [38735/18]

Michael Ring (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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The Community Services Programme (CSP) supports some 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.

To be eligible for support, an organisation must be a social enterprise capable of generating income from its activities. CSP funding is a fixed annual contribution and does not meet the full salary cost of supported posts or fund other day-to-day operating costs. Accordingly, the CSP contribution must be co-funded by the organisation concerned from other sources, for example, from income received from the public use of their facilities and services.

The organisation in question may submit an expression of interest to my Department under the programme and funding will be considered, subject to the organisation meeting all CSP eligibility criteria and in light of available budgets during the year.