Seán Haughey (Dublin North Central, Fianna Fail)
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Youthreach Centres are operated by VECs and the staff in the centres are employed by each VEC. The current staffing allocation by my Department to VECs for Youthreach Centres is 4,200 hours per group of 25 learners. From this allocation of hours, VECs employ one coordinator per centre, at least one resource person per group of 25 learners and a mix of teaching and non teaching staff to meet the needs of the learners in their centres.

There are 3,600 Youthreach places currently being funded by my Department. This includes an additional 400 places which were allocated to VECs this year. At present there are, allowing for new centres opening this year, approximately 100 Youthreach centres in operation.

In 2006 there were in the region of 321 full time and 579 part time staff working in Youthreach centres.