Cathal Crowe (Clare, Fianna Fail)
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689. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development when her Department intends informing the applicants for funding under the community centres investment fund whether they have been successful in their bids. [61778/22]

Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
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The €15 million Community Centres Investment Fund launched in April this year.

The Fund was available to Community groups under 3 Categories:

- Category 1 - grants up to €25,000

- Category 2 - grants between €25,001 and €100,000

- Category 3 - grants between €100,001 and €300,000

The fund closed to applications in July, and interest was extremely high, with over a thousand applications received under the 3 Categories.All applications were subject to a competitive appraisal process.

On October 12th, I announced over €12.5 million in funding for 580 successful Category 1 applicants. On December 8th, I was delighted to announce a further €33 million in funding for 278 successful Categories 2 and 3 applicants. Details of the successful applicants are available on my Department’s website and my officials are the process of notifying all successful applicants.