Departmental Programmes
Dail Éireann — 2024-05-09
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Joe O'Brien (GP), Dublin Fingal

I acknowledge the Deputy's ongoing advocacy for Muirhevnamore community centre. He raises it with me regularly. We supply funding for it to support a manager and three full-time equivalents, so that is an annual contribution of €114,000 supplied to Muirhevnamore community centre. I again summarise that, over the past four years, there has been a list of financial pressures on the CSP that really started with Covid. Many CSP organisations depend on the income they generate themselves. That varies a lot depending on where organisations are situated. We had a job to make sure CSP organisations survived through Covid. Many of them were not able to generate their own income, so we developed a support fund to guide the 400-plus organisations through that challenge. We have a new model, which gives CSP organisations a graded contribution. I think Muirhevnamore is one of those getting a higher contribution under the new model because it is in an area of higher need with less ability to generate its own income.

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Sitting date: 2024-05-09