Written answers

Wednesday, 27 May 2020

Department of Rural and Community Development

Departmental Funding

Photo of John McGuinnessJohn McGuinness (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail)
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906. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if he will review an application for funding from a project (details supplied) with a view to granting the project financial support. [8239/20]

Photo of Michael RingMichael Ring (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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I can confirm that an application was submitted by the organisation in question under the Small Capital Grants Scheme for Social Enterprises which I launched in September 2019.

The scheme, which is administered by the Local Development Companies on behalf of my Department, provides grants of between €2,000 and €15,000 for equipment, repairs or refurbishments to enable social enterprises to improve their service delivery.

My Department received an overwhelming response to this call for funding, which was heavily over-subscribed.

On 9 December 2019, I announced the allocation of €1 million in funding from the Dormant Accounts Fund to 124 social enterprise projects across the country under the scheme. While the organisation referred to by the Deputy was not successful on that occasion, it was successful in the second round of allocations under the scheme which I announced in January 2020. This second round of approvals provided an additional €1 million to a further 106 social enterprises.

Full lists of the successful social enterprises under the first and second rounds of the scheme, including the grant amounts awarded, are available at:

(first round)

(second round)

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