Dáil Éireann díospóireacht -
Tuesday, 6 Mar 1990

Vol. 396 No. 6

Written Answers. - Youth Services.

Tomás MacGiolla

Ceist:

47 Tomás Mac Giolla asked the Minister for Education if the speech made by the Minister of State at her Department to the annual assembly of the National Youth Council of Ireland, in which he questioned whether it was worth spending £200,000 on a representative body for youth, represented her Department's policy; if it is intended to establish youth services on a legislative basis; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

Minister for Education (Mrs. O'Rourke)

The question referred to by the Deputy was raised in the first instance in the context of a general questioning of youth organisations as to potential areas of duplication in their day to day activities. In this regard, therefore, it can be said to represent the Department's policy of improving the quality of youth service provision within the resources available.

It is not intended at the moment to establish the youth services on a legislative basis.