Community Development Projects
Dail Éireann — 2021-10-14
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Paul Donnelly (SF), Dublin West

I commend the new fund the Minister of State talked about regarding community centres. This originated from my constituency in Hartstown and Huntstown, where there was a major concern about two community centres closing.
My concern, and I have not seen any of the detail, although the Government will be publishing it soon, is with regard to whether this is for non-local authority owned community centres or if local authorities can use some of this funding for their own community centres. A significant concern for the likes of, say, Hartstown and Huntstown, which are not local authority-owned, is that some of that funding will be siphoned off into community centres that have substantial funding from their local authorities.

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Sitting date: 2021-10-14