Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Friday, 19 April 2013
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children
Update on Children and Youth Affairs: Discussion with Minister for Children and Youth Affairs
11:20 am
Jillian van Turnhout (Independent) | Oireachtas source
We have not got them. We hoped that as a committee we would automatically get them, so perhaps that could be looked at.
On youth work funding, I very much welcome the Minister's assurances that there are no plans to transfer the schemes to the City of Dublin VEC. Will she also confirm that there is not a plan for two new schemes for youth work funding to replace the current youth work funding schemes? We are all awaiting the youth policy framework and the value for money review. I would have thought that in light of those, perhaps new youth work funding schemes would be devised. I would very much understand if the Minister said that when the youth policy framework is published, she would ask organisations to apply in order to fulfil the strategy or the youth policy framework. I would like reassurance because there seems to be misinformation. I want to give assurances to youth organisations if any new funding schemes are being planned to replace the current funding schemes.
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