Michael Ring (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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403. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when an application will be approved for an organisation (details supplied) in County Mayo; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [60746/22]

Roderic O'Gorman (Dublin West, Green Party)
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In response to the significant increase in demand for Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund (AMIF) supports arising from the war in Ukraine, the EU adopted emergency measures. This involved an extension of the overall 2014-2020 AMIF programme, and the option for Member States to re-purpose unused funds to provide additional supports to organisations involved in supporting Ukrainian refugees. Ireland opted into these amendments in July 2022, and my department then held a closed Call for Proposals, limited to the 19 projects which had been approved funding under the 2019 AMIF Call for Proposals. Applications are currently being reviewed in line with the available budget for 2022 and 2023, and it is my intention to inform projects soon of the outcome of their applications.