Kinvara Community Centre grant
The Minister said funds for the community grant programme were fully committed, and Kinvara Community Council had not been nominated for assistance, so no grant was available.
asked the Minister for Education if he will make a grant available to Kinvara Community Council, County Galway towards the cost of providing a community centre.
Comment on this
Almost 700 applications for capital grant assistance, including an application from Kinvara Community Council, were received under my Department's community, youth, recreational and employment Programme. All funds placed at my Department's disposal for the purposes of this programme were fully committed by the former Minister of State and Kinvara Community Council was not nominated for assistance by him. There are therefore no funds currently available to me out of which I might make a capital grant available to Kinvara Community Council.
Following a letter from the former Minister of State in regard to another scheme — the temporary grant scheme for youth employment — my Department issued details of this scheme and an appropriate application form to the council on 11 March 1982. I have recently been informed by the council that this scheme would not be of any benefit to it at present.