Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 31 January 2017
774. Deputy Colm Brophy asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the total sum of money that will be available to her Department from dormant account funding for 2017; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3864/17]
View answer775. Deputy Colm Brophy asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the projects she plans to support with the dormant account funding allocated to her Department for 2017; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3865/17]
View answerI propose to take Questions Nos. 774 and 775 together.
The Dormant Accounts Fund Action Plans contain a number of specific measures intended to support children and disadvantaged young people for which my Department has primary responsibility. A resource allocation of €5.166 million has been made available in 2017 to my Department to support a number of ongoing projects and programmes and relevant details are set out in the following table for the Deputy's information.
|
Projects and Programme |
Funding Allocation (€000) |
|
Phone App for young people in State care |
94,000 |
|
Aftercare Information Packs |
22,000 |
|
Quality and Capacity Building Programme |
3,115,000 |
|
Localise Service Skills for Life Programme |
100,000 |
|
Youth Employment Initiative |
33,000 |
|
Total |
3,364,000 |
The balance of €1.8 million will be used to fund a number of projects yet to be finalised under the 2017 Action Plan.
