Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 18 January 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement

PEACEPLUS Programme: Special EU Programmes Body

Ms Gina McIntyre:

We have to admit that in the past we have not been as good at recording impacts, outputs and so on. There was probably more of a focus on targets, outputs, numbers and money, and we realised we have fewer stories about the real impact of this money on the ground. We have on our website a PEACE platform, which has collected all the projects that have been funded from PEACE since the start. It shows case studies and evaluations by sector, so they could relate to the women's sector, training, youth, the business sector or projects that have been funded over the years. More than that, an item of work we are really pushing for ourselves to get involved in now relates to recording the impact. Some work has been done on the impact and Mr. Beattie has brought to the meeting hard copies of that report, which is also on our website. We need to start talking about the benefits, the impacts and the outcomes of this money and less about the numbers of projects.

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