Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 6 March 2019
Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs
Estimates for Public Service 2019
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (Revised)
Denise Mitchell (Dublin Bay North, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source
I wish to discuss a few elements of programme B. I welcome much of this, in particular the increases across the board. The intervention programme for children does good work, for example, the book bag pilot scheme. The Minister may not have the information with her, but pilots are referenced. Have those started? Where have they been run? Great work is being done in terms of, for example, the Big Brother Big Sister mentoring programme and the baby boxes, which the Minister-----
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