Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Certainly that response would be welcome. This has been an ongoing issue for youth workers and providers in the Stoneybatter area. The nub of it is that there is an anomaly of about €76,000, conservatively, in respect of the spend.

The City of Dublin Youth Service Board, CDYSB, has given one figure and the Department has given another. Similar services across the State are under considerable pressure, therefore, these people want clarification and a final figure on what is being spent. Their worry is that the Department is issuing figures that inflate the spend in the Stoneybatter area and they are concerned that this be clarified, or if it is the case that money ought to be going into the Stoneybatter area but, by dint by some of some administrative error, is going elsewhere, they want that clarified also.