Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 16 February 2023
312. Deputy Emer Higgins asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide a list of all recipients of lottery funding in south Dublin from his Department from 2011 to 2023, in tabular form. [7819/23]
Amharc ar fhreagraNational Lottery funding is used to part-fund youth organisations and youth services throughout the country, including in South Dublin. My Department distributes funding under three programmes:
- UBU Your Place Your Space – provides funding to targeted youth services across 16 Education and Training Boards (ETBs);
- Youth Services Grant Scheme - provides funding to 30 national and major regional voluntary youth organisations; and
- Youth Information Centres – 21 Youth Information Centres are funded nationally.
South Dublin county comes under the remit of the two ETBs - City of Dublin ETB and Dublin and Dun Laoghaire ETB.
€75million was made available in funding under these programmes in 2023, made up of Exchequer and National Lottery funding.
It is not possible to provide a list of recipients of National Lottery funding for South Dublin, as funding allocated by my Department to national youth organisations and ETBs is not disaggregated between Exchequer and National Lottery funding. In addition, In the case of the national youth organisations, they are not required to report on their expenditure on a county basis.
My Department has, since 2020, published information on youth organisations and services which are part-funded by the National Lottery. The information is available at www.gov.ie/en/policy-information/91394c-youth-affairs/
My Department operated a National Lottery Funding Scheme from 2011 to 2014 which provided grants to community groups and programmes to support children, young people and families. The Scheme provided funding of €500, 000 each year from 2011 to 2014. Information is not available on the amount of the funding allocation which was used for projects in South Dublin.
