Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 25 May 2016
370. Deputy Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs for a full breakdown of the cost of funding in area-based childhood areas at present and an estimated cost for 2017. [12065/16]
View answerThe ABC programme is a joint prevention and early intervention initiative led by the Department of Children and Youth Affairs and the Atlantic Philanthropies. It is a time-bound, co-funding arrangement in the amount of €29.7m from 2013 to 2017. The aim of the ABC Programme is to test and evaluate prevention and early intervention approaches to improve outcomes for children, and families living in poverty in 13 areas of disadvantage. The focus of the work under the ABC Programme covers in the main: Child Health & Development; Children’s Learning; Parenting; and Integrated Service Delivery.
The ABC programme was preceded by the Prevention and Early Intervention Programme (PEIP) (2007-2013) in which three sites participated: youngballymun, The Childhood Development Initiative Tallaght and The Preparing for Life Programme, Darndale. €50m has been provided to these three sites over the duration of both the PEIP and ABC programmes. In order to allow for a comprehensive examination of how best to mainstream the learning from the ABC sites, the DCYA is committed to aligning all 13 ABC programme grant recipients and ensuring that effective services provided in each can be supported until mid-2017. In this regard, DCYA have committed to the provision of an additional €400,000 to each of the 3 former PEIP sites, subject to the submission of proposals to the DCYA and The Atlantic Philanthropies at the end of May for consideration.
This additional funding will bring the total funding being provided directly to sites over the duration of the programme to €24.7m. In addition to this, funding is provided to both Pobal and the Centre for Effective Services as programme managers of the ABC programme. This funding amounts to €2.96m for the Centre for Effective Services for the implementation supports and the evaluation of the programme and €1.28m for Pobal for the management and governance of the programme.
I have asked my officials to seek the most up to date information from Pobal as follows:
- Profiled spend in 2016 based on the current run rate
- Profiled spend for 2017 (when the programme is due to end)
I anticipate that these costings will be finalised soon and I will revert to the Deputy with a full and annualised costing of the programme for 2017. The full budget allocation per site is provided in the following table.
|
ABC Area |
ABC Project Grant € |
Agreed Dev. Fund Grant € |
Additional funding to former PEIP Sites 2016 € |
Total € |
|
The Ballyfermot/Chapelizod Partnership Company (Dublin 10) |
750,000 |
25,686 |
- |
775,686 |
|
Bray Area Partnership Ltd (BAP) |
838,000 |
6,804 |
- |
844,804 |
|
Clondalkin Behavioural Initiative t/a Archways |
1,128,099 |
31219 |
- |
1,159,318 |
|
Dublin Institute of Technology (DIT) Grangegorman |
940,826 |
25,000 |
- |
965,826 |
|
Finglas (Barnardos) |
1,212,410 |
- |
- |
1,212,410 |
|
Knocknaheeny Northside Community Health Initiative (Cork) Ltd |
1,800,000 |
25,000 |
- |
1,825,000 |
|
Louth Leader Partnership |
1,510,590 |
12,850 |
- |
1,523,440 |
|
National College of Ireland |
1,200,000 |
- |
- |
1,200,000 |
|
Preparing for Life (including Midlands) |
3,339,000 |
- |
400,000 |
3,739,000 |
|
People Action Against Unemployed Limited (PAUL-Limerick) |
1,579,563 |
21,265 |
- |
1,600,828 |
|
Tallaght West Childhood Development Initiative |
4,134,243 |
- |
400,000 |
4,534,243 |
|
Young Ballymun Ltd |
5,000,000 |
- |
400,000 |
5,400,000 |
|
TOTAL PROGRAMME FUNDING |
23,432,731 |
147,824 |
1,200,000 |
24,780,555 |
