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community services, particularly by helping voluntary / community organisations to access funding and providing them with premises. Four estate regeneration and estate management projects are also based in the four estates, the mandate of which overlaps to an extent with the community development projects. Although estate management and estate regeneration projects generally include the relevant local authority and other statutory agencies, community development projects are independent of government.

The funding streams identified in Tables 4 to 7, which emanate from government, accounted for the majority of the income of the organisations involved. Private and philanthropic sources also made contributions in certain cases, though with the exception of Fatima Mansions that contribution was generally small. Some organisations in the estates derived small amounts of income from charges they levied on users of services, and four in Moyross received private philanthropic support in 2006. The exceptional role of private funding in Fatima Mansions arose partly as a consequence of the public-private partnership through which the estate regeneration was financed. The terms of this partnership provided that in exchange for access to development land for private housing in the estate, the private developer who undertook the project contributed a ‘community dividend’ to local community, to be managed by Fatima Regeneration Board. This community dividend was originally set at €5.6 million, to be handed over as the private elements in the development were realised. As mentioned earlier, the recent crash in the property market in Ireland has raised doubts over the commercial status of the private housing in the estate and thus over the final amount of the community dividend to be paid. Nevertheless, sums provided to date have been an important resource for Fatima Regeneration Board. Particular projects in Fatima Mansions have also received large support from private philanthropy in the form of Atlantic Philanthropies. As we detail further below, these resources together, when added to the public funding streams that have benefitted the estate, have placed Fatima Mansions in an exceptionally well-resourced position compared to the other estates and have enabled it to provide a range and level of services to residents that are unmatched elsewhere.

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The results of the costing of area based expenditure at estate level in some cases echoed those at the national level in terms of the broad magnitude of expenditures, while in other

cases estate-level expenditures were considerably below the benchmark estimated earlier (namely, expenditures per household in 2006 had expenditure been targeted on the ten per cent most disadvantaged households in the state). The data are shown in Table 8.

Table 8.Current public expenditure on area-based initiatives in four estates, 2006

Estate Total Expenditure (€) Estimated No of Households1 Expenditure per Household (€) Expenditure per household indexed to average

Cranmore 1,337,892 511 2,618 85

Deanrock 309,370 336 921 30

Fatima 536,679 150 3,578 116

Moyross 4,041,135 1,014 3,985 129 All Four Estates 6,225,076 2,011 3,0962 100

Note: Expenditure on Community Employment and Jobs Initiative Schemes was adjusted to remove the benefit replacement element which is estimated at 65.9 per cent of total expenditure on these schemes. Quoted amounts for these schemes thus equate to 34.1 per cent of total expenditure on these schemes (see text, p. 33). 1 Because estate boundaries do not correspond to the small areas used for the census of population, and there is no definitive information available from other sources, the number of households had to be locally estimated for each estate. 2 This is the average of expenditure per household weighted by the size of the estate, or alternatively is equal to total spending across all four estates divided by the total number of households.

This table demonstrates that public expenditure on area based initiatives in the four estates totalled €6,225,076 in 2006, or €3,096 per household. This estimate of per household expenditure in the four estates is considerably below the illustrative national expenditure estimate arrived at earlier on the basis an assumption that all spending from national programmes were concentrated estimate Expenditure per household in both Fatima Mansions and Moyross was above this average, but in both cases per household expenditure was also below the level which might be expected based on the national expenditure estimates presented above. In Deanrock and Cranmore, by contrast, area based spending was significantly below the norm in the two other estates - €921 per household in the former and €2,618 in the latter. In both estates this low expenditure reflected extensive reliance on the Community Employment Scheme for staffing community projects, whereas use of (comparatively more expensive) salaried staff was more commonly employed to implement ABIs in Moyross and particularly in Fatima Mansions. The low expenditure in Deanrock understates the funding received by organisations based within that estate as many of the clients for their services were drawn from the wider Togher area rather than Deanrock itself. In keeping with the methodology we employed in all the estates, expenditures for Deanrock were adjusted downwards so as to include only the share accounted for by Deanrock residents. 76