Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail)
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333. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the current and capital expenditure allocated to the community services programme in each of the years 2016 to 2019; the amount expended in each year in tabular form; and the number of participants and approved projects by county each year. [52384/19]

Michael Ring (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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The Community Services Programme (CSP) transferred to my Department on 1 January 2018. It supports community organisations to provide local services through a social enterprise model. Funding is provided towards the costs of employing a manager and a specified number of full-time employees(FTEs). Almost €47 million will be available to support community organisations under the programme in 2020.

CSP funding is current with no capital expenditure. The 2016-2019 allocations and outturns are set out in Table 1 below. This allocation also includes the fee paid to Pobal to administer the CSP on behalf of my Department.

Table 2 below sets out the number of organisations, managers and full-time equivalents (FTEs) per County for 2016 - 2018 and with an estimate for 2019.

Table 1 - 2016-2019 Allocations and Outturn

Table 2 - Expenditure per county with the number of organisations, managers and FTEs.

2016

2017

2018

2019 Estimates