Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)
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The headline objectives of the Government's Shared Island Initiative and of the PEACEPLUS programme are complementary. The Shared Island Initiative is funded by the Government of Ireland. The PEACEPLUS programme is funded by the European Union, the UK government, the Government of Ireland and the Northern Ireland Executive and is separate and distinct from the Shared Island Initiative.

Organisations are free to apply for funding under both schemes. Any application would need to be in accordance with the requirements of the specific programme and the general principle that double funding of the same activity from different sources is not involved. It would of course be for with the Special EU Programmes Body or for the relevant Government Department on a Shared Island Initiative programme to determine whether any given application falls within its terms of reference.

The Special EU Programmes Body maintains an ongoing engagement on the PEACEPLUS programme with its Sponsor Department in this jurisdiction, the Department of Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform, and with all relevant Government Departments, including my Department and the Department of the Taoiseach. The Special EU Programmes Body has commenced calls for the PEACEPLUS programme across a range of themes and full information is available at www.seupb.org.