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Youth Services

Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 3 November 2020

Tuesday, 3 November 2020

Ceisteanna (961)

Kathleen Funchion

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961. Deputy Kathleen Funchion asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the breakdown of the €5 million funding announced in the Budget for youth services (details supplied). [32804/20]

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I am pleased to confirm that I secured an additional €5 million in current funding for youth services nationally as part of Budget 2021. My officials are currently working on the apportionment of these funds in the context of the publication of the Revised Estimates Volume later this year. As such, I am not in a position as yet to provide a detailed breakdown of these allocations.

As part of the Budget 2021 announcements, the youth sector has also been allocated a capital sum of €3m. This funding, which is the same amount as provided in 2020, will support the annual youth sector capital scheme to be designed and rolled out in 2021. While no decisions on areas to be prioritised as part of this fund have yet been made, ICT was a prominent feature of the scheme in 2020.

Furthermore, I have secured an additional amount of €1m capital funding in the current year to support ICT procurement in the youth sector before year end. This grant scheme is being rolled out through the ETBs in their role as funding intermediary for youth schemes and was formally announced in the last few days. This sum is additional to the Covid-related small grant scheme for the sector recently announced.

This additional funding allocated to youth services in the coming year will support the delivery of universal and targeted youth services nationwide with a particular view to the role played by youth services in supporting mental wellbeing, fostering resilience and developing the social and personal competencies of young people, including disadvantaged, marginalised or vulnerable young people.

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