120 Dr. Upton asked the Minister for Enterprise and Employment the projects, if any, that are funded or have been approved for funding under the Adapt Community Initiative Programme of the second round of the structural funds; the name, purpose and location of each project; and the amount of Irish and European funding provided. [2664/96]

In July of last year, I approved 49 projects under Adapt to proceed to a development phase, during which the project sponsors refined and developed their plans and objectives and consolidated their transnational partnerships. During the project development phase, Léargas, the Exchange Bureau, the Technical Support Unit for Adapt, worked closely with all project promoters to ensure that they had the capacity to deliver planned activity, to ensure meaningful transnational partnerships, to rationalise proposed budgets and to ensure generally that all criteria were being strictly adhered to. Projects submitted revised plans at the end of December 1995. I expect in the next few weeks to approve a significant number of projects to proceed to implementation under Adapt. The balance of projects will have their project development phase extended for a short period, as they sort out any difficulties or do some more development work. When approved these projects will form the Adapt programme in Ireland up to the end of 1997. I will forward the list of approved projects to the Deputy when available and this will include the name, purpose and location of each project and the amount of Irish and European funding involved.