Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats)
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1959. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will provide the budget allocated to develop a database (details supplied) that records the way in which State grant aid is distributed; and the timeline for the completion and roll-out of the database. [20489/22]

Joe O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Green Party)
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My Department is currently exploring options for the establishment of centralised grantee database for the community and voluntary sector in line with our Statement of Strategy.

Streamlining the compliance and reporting burden faced by the sector across many different agents of the State has been identified, via engagement with the sector, as a key requirement. The merits of proceeding with this proposal would be dependent on establishing a whole-of-government approach to governance reporting. Simply sharing access to an existing centralised data would not remove multiple reporting requirements.

The high-level purpose of this scoping exercise is to explore options for a database that would reduce the administrative burden on grantees and funders, as well as providing a single source of information and source of analysis on state funded community and voluntary grantees, and on the investment being made into these organisations.

This project is at a very preliminary and exploratory stage. It is not intended as a replacement for any organisation or database.